Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Full reference: J. Leidy. 1858. Notice of Remains of Extinct Vertebrata, from the Valley of the Niobrara River, Collected during the Exploring Expedition of 1857, in Nebraska, under the Command of Lieut. G. K. Warren, U. S. Top. Eng., by Dr. F. V. Hayden, Geologist to the Expedition. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10:15-89
Belongs to Merycochoerus according to M. S. Stevens et al. 2023
See also Cope 1884, Douglass 1906, Hay 1902, Leidy 1858, Leidy 1873, Schultz and Falkenbach 1940, Stevens and Stevens 2007 and Thorpe 1937
Sister taxa: Merycochoerus (Brachycrus), Merycochoerus magnus, Merycochoerus matthewi, Merycochoerus pinensis
Type specimen: ANSP 10868, ANSP 10867, NM 156, a mandible. Its type locality is Niobrara River (coll. Hayden 1857), which is in a Barstovian/Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Loup Fork Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan collection), United States (8: Colorado, Nebraska)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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