Micromeryx Lartet 1851 (musk deer)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Moschidae

Parent taxon: Moschinae according to D. R. Prothero 2007

See also Carroll 1988 and Qiu et al. 1981

Sister taxon: Moschus

Subtaxa: Micromeryx eiselei Micromeryx flourensianus

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Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer

Distribution:

• Miocene of Austria (1 collection), China (5), the Czech Republic (2), France (4), Germany (6), Hungary (1), Mongolia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (10), Switzerland (1)

• Oligocene of Kazakhstan (1)

Total: 33 collections including 35 occurrences

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