Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Alternative combinations: Mesoreodon longiceps, Pseudodesmatochoerus longiceps
Full reference: E. Douglass. 1907. New merycoidodonts from the Miocene of Montana. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23:809-822
Belongs to Merycoides according to M. S. Stevens et al. 2023
See also Douglass 1907, Lander 1998, Loomis 1924, Schultz and Falkenbach 1954, Stevens and Stevens 2007, Tabrum and Nichols 2001 and Thorpe 1937
Sister taxa: Merycoides cursor, Merycoides stouti
Type specimen: AMNH 9732, a partial skeleton (A nearly complete skull with the mandible, the cervical, lumbar, and sacral vertebrae, portions of most of the dorsal vertebrae, a scapula, a pelvis, a femur, a). Its type locality is North Boulder Valley, which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in the Renova Formation of Montana.
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (1: Oregon collection)
• Harrisonian of United States (1: Montana)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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