American Mountain Deer
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| American Mountain Deer Fossil range: late Pleistocene |
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| †Navahoceros fricki (Schultz and Howard, 1935) |
The American Mountain Deer (Navahoceros fricki) is an extinct member of the family Cervidae and was most common in the North American Rocky Mountains during the Pleistocene. It survived to about 11,500 Bp from evidence found in Burnet Cave in the Guadalupe Mountains of southern New Mexico.
[edit] References
- Kurtén, B., 1975, A new Pleistocene genus of American mountain deer: Journal of Mammalogy, v. 56, p. 507—508.
- Pleistocene Mammals of North America, By Björn Kurtén, Elaine Anderson, ISBN 0231037333
- McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
