Dromomeryx

Dromomeryx
Temporal range:
Dromomeryx borealis fossils
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: †Dromomerycidae
Subfamily: †Dromomerycinae
Genus: †
Douglass, 1909

Dromomeryx is an extinct genus of Artiodactyla, of the family Dromomerycidae, endemic to North America.[1]

D. borealis skull
Restoration of Aepycamelus and Dromomeryx (background)

References

  1. ^ Semprebon, G.; Janis, C.; Solounias, N. (2004). "The diets of the Dromomerycidae (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) and their response to Miocene vegetational change". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (2): 427. doi:10.1671/2431. S2CID 85857758.


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