Cranioceras
| Cranioceras Temporal range: Miocene to Pliocene | |
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| Cranioceras skinneri skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Ruminantia |
| Superfamily: | Cervoidea |
| Family: | †Dromomerycidae |
| Genus: | †Cranioceras Matthew, 1918 |
| Species | |
Cranioceras is an extinct genus of artiodactyl from the Miocene to the Pliocene in the United States.
Sources
- After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past) by Donald R. Prothero
- Dinosaur Encyclopedia by Jayne Parsons
- The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth, Second Edition by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Big Book Of Dinosaurs by David Norman
External links
- Cranioceras in the Paleobiology Database
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