Procranioceras

Procranioceras
Temporal range: Miocene
Procranioceras skinneri skull cast at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Ruminantia
Family: Palaeomerycidae
Subfamily: Dromomerycinae
Genus: Procranioceras
Frick (1937)

Procranioceras is an extinct genus of Artiodactyla, of the family Palaeomerycidae, endemic to Europe and Asia from the Miocene epoch, 16.3—13.6 Ma, existing for approximately 2.7 million years.[1]

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Taxonomy

Cranioceras (Procranioceras) skinneri was named by Frick (1937), as a sub-genus. It was reranked as Procranioceras by Janis and Manning (1998) and Prothero and Liter (2007). It was assigned to Cranioceras by Frick (1937); to Dromomerycidae by Janis and Manning (1998); and to Cranioceratini by Prothero and Liter (2007)[2][3]

Body mass

A single specimen of Procranioceras were measured by M. Mendoza, C. M. Janis, and P. Palmqvist for body mass.[4]

Fossil distribution

References

  1. ^ PaleoBiology Database: Procranioceras, basic info
  2. ^ C. M. Janis and E. Manning. 1998. Dromomerycidae. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America 477-490
  3. ^ D. R. Prothero and M. R. Liter. 2007. Family Palaeomerycidae. in D. R. Prothero and S. Foss (eds.), The Evolution of Artiodactyls 241-248
  4. ^ M. Mendoza, C. M. Janis, and P. Palmqvist. 2006. Estimating the body mass of extinct ungulates: a study on the use of multiple regression. Journal of Zoology 270(1):90-101