Apriculus Gazin 1956 (even-toed ungulate)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Dichobunidae

Full reference: C. L. Gazin. 1956. The Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Upper Eocene Strata in the Northeastern Part of the Wind River Basin, Wyoming. Part 2. the Mammalian Fauna of The Badwater Area. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 131(8):1-44

Parent taxon: Helohyinae according to C. L. Gazin 1956

See also Black 1978, Carroll 1988 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Apriculus praeteritus

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Badwater Locality 7 (Eocene of Wyoming)

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