Ozotoceros Ameghino 1891 (New World deer)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Cervidae

Parent taxon: Odocoileinae according to I. Agnarsson and L. J. May-Collado 2008

See also Carroll 1988, Deschamps 2005, Grubb 2000, Hershkovitz 1982 and Salles et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Blastocerus, Hippocamelus, Mazama, Morenelaphus, Odocoileus, Pavlodaria, Pudini, Rohnia

Subtaxa: Ozotoceros bezoarticus

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (7 collections), Brazil (2), Uruguay (3)

Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence

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