Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Moschidae
Alternative combination: Blastomeryx floridanus
Full reference: T. E. White. 1940. New Miocene Vertebrates From Florida. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club 18:31-38
Belongs to Parablastomeryx according to D. R. Prothero 2008
See also Prothero 2007, Tedford et al. 1987, Webb 1998, White 1940 and White 1942
Sister taxon: Parablastomeryx gregorii
Type specimen: MCZ 3626, a mandible (fragment of left mandible with p4 - m2, the medial side and most of the posterior lobe of m2 missing). Its type locality is Thomas Farm, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial sandstone/claystone in the Alachua Formation of Florida.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer
Distribution: found only at Thomas Farm
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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