Simimeryx minutus Peterson 1934

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Praetragulidae

Alternative combination: Leptomeryx minutus

Full reference: O. A. Peterson. 1934. List of species and description of new material from the Duchesne River Oligocene, Uinta Basin, Utah. Annals of Carnegie Museum 23(7):373-389

Belongs to Simimeryx according to I. A. Vislobokova 2001

See also Gazin 1955, Golz 1976 and Peterson 1934

Sister taxon: Simimeryx hudsoni

Type specimen: CM 11913, a mandible (Portion of right ramus of mandible with P4-M2). Its type locality is Red Narrows, which is in a Duchesnean terrestrial horizon in the Duchesne River Formation of Utah.

Distribution: found only at Red Narrows

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