Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Alternative combination: Merychyus curtus
Full reference: F. B. Loomis. 1924. Miocene oreodonts in the American Museum. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 51(1):1-37
Belongs to Oreodontoides according to M. S. Stevens et al. 2023
See also Lander 1998, Loomis 1924, Macdonald 1970, Schultz and Falkenbach 1947, Stevens and Stevens 2007 and Thorpe 1937
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH 13817, a skull (Skull with I1-M3 and mandible with i1-m3.). Its type locality is East of Kyle, which is in an Arikareean terrestrial horizon in the "Lower Rosebud Beds" Formation of South Dakota.
Distribution:
• Harrisonian of United States (1: South Dakota collection)
• Arikareean of United States (1: South Dakota)
• Oligocene of United States (1: South Dakota)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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