Tragulina

Tragulina
Temporal range: Eocene–Holocene
Greater Mouse-deer (Tragulus napu)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Ruminantia
Infraorder: Tragulina
Flower, 1883[1]
Families
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Tragulina is an infraorder of even-toed ungulates. Only the chevrotains survive to the present, including the genera Tragulus (the mouse deer) and Hyemoschus.

Taxonomy

The following is the taxonomy of the group Tragulina.[2]

References

  1. "The Paleobiology Database". Retrieved May 9, 2010.
  2. "WikiLingue". Retrieved May 11, 2010.
  3. Grégoire Métais, Jean-Loup Welcomme, and Stéphane Ducrocq (2009). "New Lophiomerycid Ruminants from the Oligocene of the Bugti Hills (Balochistan, Pakistan)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (1): 231–241. doi:10.1671/039.029.0115.
  4. "Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) among mammals: increased taxon sampling alters interpretations of key fossils and character evolution". PLoS ONE. 4 (9): e7062. 2009. PMC 2740860Freely accessible. PMID 19774069. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007062.


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