†Hypsiops rooneyi Schultz and Falkenbach 1950
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Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Alternative combination: Pseudomesoreodon rooneyi
Full reference: C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1950. Phenacocoelinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 95(3)
Belongs to Hypsiops according to M. S. Stevens et al. 2023
See also Lander 1998 and Schultz and Falkenbach 1950
Sister taxa: Hypsiops brachymelis, Hypsiops latidens
Type specimen: F:AM 44948A, a skull (Skull with I1-M3). Its type locality is Grasshopper Creek, which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in Montana.
Distribution: found only at Grasshopper Creek
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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