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Ramoceros ramosus

Mammalia - Antilocapridae

Taxonomy
Cosoryx ramosus was named by Cope (1874). Its type specimen is USNM 1144, a partial skull (Three-pronged "antler."), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Dicrocerus ramosus by Cope (1875) and Cope (1875); it was synonymized subjectively with Dicrocerus furcatus by Cope (1877); it was recombined as Merycodus ramosus by Hay (1902) and Matthew (1904); it was synonymized subjectively with Merycodus furcatus by Gregory (1942); it was recombined as Ramoceros ramosus by Frick (1937), Janis and Manning (1998) and May (2019).

Subspecies

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1874Cosoryx ramosus Cope p. 148
1875Dicrocerus ramosus Cope p. 257
1902Merycodus ramosus Hay p. 683
1904Merycodus ramosus Matthew p. 122
1937Ramoceros ramosus Frick p. 323 figs. Figs. 29, 30, and [in part] 28, 28A
1998Ramoceros ramosus Janis and Manning
2019Ramoceros ramosus May

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Ruminantiamorpha
Ruminantia(Scopoli 1777)
Pecora()
familyAntilocapridae
subfamilyMerycodontinae()
genusRamoceros
speciesramosus()

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Ramoceros ramosus Cope 1874
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available