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Navahoceros fricki

Osteichthyes - Cervidae

Taxonomy
Rangifer fricki was named by Schultz and Howard (1935). Its type specimen is A.N.S.P. No. 13933, a partial skull (right maxillary fragment with dentition and right ramus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Burnet Cave, which is in a Pleistocene cave siltstone in New Mexico.

It was synonymized subjectively with Rangifer tarandus by Banfield (1961); it was recombined as Navahoceros fricki by Anderson and White (1975), Kurten (1975), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Webb (1992), Kuo et al. (2025).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1935Rangifer fricki Schultz and Howard p. 287
1969Odocoileus halli Alvarez pp. 103 - 109 figs. Figures 5 - 6
1975Navahoceros fricki Anderson and White
1975Navahoceros fricki Kurten p. 507
1980Navahoceros fricki Kurten and Anderson p. 312
1992Navahoceros fricki Webb p. 401
2025Navahoceros fricki Kuo et al. p. 118

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Ruminantiamorpha
Ruminantia(Scopoli 1777)
Pecora()
superfamilyCervoidea
familyCervidae
genusNavahoceros
speciesfricki()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Navahoceros fricki Schultz and Howard 1935
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Invalid names: Odocoileus halli Alvarez 1969 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
T. Alvarez 1969 (Odocoileus halli)Tamaño grande para el género, longitud alveolar de la mandibula de 104 a 115; maxilar, 117 .3. Forma de los premolares y molares iguala Oclocoileus virginianus, crestas de la cara lingual de los premolares y molaresbien desarrollada; segunda mitad de pm4 menos de la mitad de la anterior; la mayoria de los molares con un estilo entre los dos lobulos externos.
B. Kurten 1975Sole known species of genus. For limb bone dimensions see Table 1.
E. R. Kuo et al. 2025Smaller species of Navahoceros, withmetacarpals less than 240 mm in length and narrower than 35mm at midshaft.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: grazerf
Diet 2: browserf
Reproduction: viviparousf
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 2005-09-22 17:03:17
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Irvingtonian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 1.40000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Irvingtonian1.4 - 0.21Mexico (Aguascalientes) Odocoileus halli (20283)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (New Mexico) Rangifer fricki (type locality: 93281)