Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Synonym: Phenacocoelus munroensis Peterson 1928
Full reference: O. A. Peterson. 1907. The Miocene Beds of Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming and Their Vertebrate Faunae. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4(3):21-72
Belongs to Phenacocoelus according to M. S. Stevens et al. 2023
See also Lander 1998, MacFadden 1980, Peterson 1907, Peterson 1928, Schultz and Falkenbach 1947, Schultz and Falkenbach 1950, Stevens and Stevens 2007 and Thorpe 1937
Sister taxon: Phenacocoelus kayi
Type specimens:
- Phenacocoelus typus: CM 1263, a partial skeleton (the greater portion of a skeleton). Its type locality is Monroe Creek (Type), which is in a Monroecreekian terrestrial horizon in the Monroe Creek Formation of Nebraska.
- Phenacocoelus munroensis: CMNH 1288, a partial skeleton (the lower jaws, fragments of the atlas and other cervicals, two anterior dorsals, a fragment of the sacrum, fragments of ribs, por- tions of both radii, and the).
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Harrisonian of United States (1: Wyoming collection)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Nebraska)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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