Yumaceras

<i>Yumaceras</i>

Yumaceras

Extinct genus of mammals

Yumaceras is an extinct genus of antelope-like palaeomerycid artiodactyl endemic to North America from the Miocene epoch, 13.6—5.33 Ma, existing for approximately 8.27 million years.[1]

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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. [1]
    PaleoBiology Database: Yumaceras, basic info
  2. [2]
    C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669
  3. [3]
    D. E. Savage. 1941. American Midland Naturalist 25
  4. [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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