Yumaceras

Yumaceras
Temporal range: Miocene
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 antelope-like palaeomerycid artiodactyl endemic to North America, Europe and Asia from the Miocene epoch, 13.6—5.33 Ma, existing for approximately 8.27 million years.[1]

Taxonomy

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]

Fossil distribution

References

  1. PaleoBiology Database: Yumaceras, basic info
  2. C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669
  3. D. E. Savage. 1941. American Midland Naturalist 25
  4. D. R. Prothero and M. R. Liter. 2007. Family Palaeomerycidae. in D. R. Prothero and S. Foss (eds.), The Evolution of Artiodactyls 241-248
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