Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Synonyms: Merycochoerus (Pronomotherium) Douglass 1907, Pronomotherium Douglass 1907
Full reference: W. D. Matthew. 1901. Fossil mammals of the Tertiary of northeastern Colorado: Ameican Museum collection of 1898. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1(7):353-447
Parent taxon: Brachycrurinae according to M. S. Stevens et al. 2023
See also Douglass 1907, Lander 1998, Merriam 1919, Schultz and Falkenbach 1940, Scott 1913, Shotwell 1968 and Thorpe 1937
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: none
Type: Merycochoerus rusticus
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (70: California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wyoming collections)
Total: 70 collections including 73 occurrences
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