Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Synonym: Megasespia middleswarti Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
Full reference: C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1968. The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part 1: Merycoidodontinae, Eporeodontinae, and Leptaucheniinae, Three Subfamilies Of Oreodonts, With an Appendix to the Revision Of The Merycoidodontidae, and Part 2. Summary and Conclusions Concerning the Merycoidodontidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139:1-498
Belongs to Sespia according to J. M. Hoffman and D. R. Prothero 2004
See also CoBabe 1996, Lander 1998, Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 and Stevens and Stevens 2007
Sister taxa: none
Type specimens:
- Sespia ultima: Its type locality is Big Muddy Creek, which is in an Arikareean terrestrial horizon in Wyoming
- Megasespia middleswarti: Its type locality is Pumpkin Creek, which is in a Geringian terrestrial horizon in the Gering Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Arikareean of United States (2: Wyoming collections)
• Oligocene of United States (5: Nebraska)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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