| Yumaceras Temporal range: Miocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Ruminantia |
| Family: | Palaeomerycidae |
| Subfamily: | Dromomerycinae |
| Genus: | Yumaceras Frick (1937) |
Yumaceras is an extinct genus of horse-like Artiodactyla, of the family Palaeomerycidae, endemic to North America, Europe and Asia from the Miocene epoch, 13.6—5.33 Ma, existing for approximately 8.27 million years.[1]
Yumaceras was named by Frick (1937). It was synonymized subjectively with Pediomeryx by Savage (1941) and Janis and Manning (1998); it was reranked as Pediomeryx (Yumaceras) by Webb (1983); it was synonymized subjectively with Cranioceras by Tedford et al. (1987). It was assigned to Pediomeryx by Webb (1983); and to Cranioceratini by Prothero and Liter (2007).[2][3][4]