Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Synonyms: Aftonius calvini Hay 1913, Euceratherium americanum Gidley 1913, Euceratherium bizzelli Stovall 1937, Euceratherium sinclairi Furlong 1905, Preptoceras sinclairi Furlong 1905, Taurotragus americanus Gidley 1913
Belongs to Euceratherium according to G. G. Simpson 1963
See also Alroy 2002, Carranza-Castaneda and Miller 1987, Eshelman et al. 2025, Frick 1937, Gazin 1933, Hay 1913, Holman 1977, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Schultz and Howard 1935 and Stovall 1937
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Euceratherium collinum morrisi Preptoceras sinclairi neomexicana
Type specimens:
- Euceratherium collinum: UCMP 8751, a skull. Its type locality is Potter Creek Cave, which is in a Pleistocene cave horizon in California.
- Aftonius calvini:
- Euceratherium bizzelli: Univ. Oklahoma Museum of Geology and Paleontology 701, a partial skull (crown of a skull with horns). Its type locality is Hydro, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial gravel in Oklahoma.
- Preptoceras sinclairi:
- Taurotragus americanus: USNM 7622, a maxilla (upper right cheek teeth except P2/). Its type locality is Cumberland Cave, which is in an Irvingtonian cave horizon in Maryland.
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (13: Arizona, California, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma collections)
Total: 13 collections including 14 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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