†subfamily Blastomerycinae Frick 1937 (musk deer)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Moschidae

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

See also Prothero 2008

Sister taxa: Bedenomeryx, Friburgomeryx, Hispanomeryx, Hydropotopsis, Moschinae, Oriomeryx, Pomelomeryx

Subtaxa: Blastomeryx Longirostromeryx Machaeromeryx Parablastomeryx Problastomeryx Pseudoblastomeryx

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Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer

Distribution:

• Miocene of Canada (9: Saskatchewan collections), Panama (1), United States (102: California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)

• Harrisonian of United States (18: Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming)

• Arikareean of United States (5: California, Montana, Wyoming)

Total: 135 collections including 144 occurrences

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