Aletomeryx Temporal range:
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A. gracilis skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | † Dromomerycidae |
Tribe: | † Aletomerycini |
Genus: | †
Aletomeryx Lull (1920) |
Species | |
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Aletomeryx is an extinct genus of Artiodactyla, of the family Dromomerycidae, endemic to North America from the early Miocene epoch ( Hemingfordian stage) 20.6—16.3 Ma, existing for approximately 4.3 million years. [1]
Aletomeryx was named by Lull (1920). It is the type genus of Aletomerycinae, Aletomerycini. It was assigned to Dromomerycidae by Lull (1920) and Janis and Manning (1998); and to Aletomerycini by Prothero and Liter (2007). [2] [3] [4]
Fossils have been recovered from the Midway Site in Florida, Saskatchewan, Boron, California, and several sites in Nebraska and Wyoming.
Aletomeryx Temporal range:
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A. gracilis skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | † Dromomerycidae |
Tribe: | † Aletomerycini |
Genus: | †
Aletomeryx Lull (1920) |
Species | |
|
Aletomeryx is an extinct genus of Artiodactyla, of the family Dromomerycidae, endemic to North America from the early Miocene epoch ( Hemingfordian stage) 20.6—16.3 Ma, existing for approximately 4.3 million years. [1]
Aletomeryx was named by Lull (1920). It is the type genus of Aletomerycinae, Aletomerycini. It was assigned to Dromomerycidae by Lull (1920) and Janis and Manning (1998); and to Aletomerycini by Prothero and Liter (2007). [2] [3] [4]
Fossils have been recovered from the Midway Site in Florida, Saskatchewan, Boron, California, and several sites in Nebraska and Wyoming.