Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Alternative combination: Limnenetes anceps
Full reference: E. Douglass. 1902. Fossil Mammalia of the White River beds of Montana. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 20:237-279
Belongs to Oreonetes according to C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach 1956
See also Douglass 1902, Lander 1998, Loomis 1924, Peterson 1928, Scott 1940, Stevens and Stevens 2007, Tabrum and Nichols 2001 and Thorpe 1937
Sister taxon: Oreonetes douglassi
Type specimen: CM 745, a partial skull (Anterior portion of skull with C/(rt.)-M3 (P1-P2 alv.)). Its type locality is Thompson Creek, which is in a Chadronian terrestrial claystone in Montana.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Montana collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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