Plioceros dehlini Frick 1937 (pronghorn)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae

Alternative combination: Sphenophalos dehlini

Full reference: C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669

Belongs to Plioceros according to C. M. Janis and E. Manning 1998

See also Frick 1937, Stirton 1938 and Tedford et al. 1987

Sister taxa: Plioceros blicki, Plioceros floblairi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Plioceros Site, which is in a Clarendonian terrestrial horizon in the Ash Hollow Formation of Nebraska

Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (2: Nebraska collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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