Merycoides Douglass 1907 (oreodont)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae

Full reference: E. Douglass. 1907. Some new merycoidodonts. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4:99-109

Parent taxon: Eporeodontinae according to M. S. Stevens et al. 2023

See also Lander 1998, Loomis 1920, Loomis 1924, Schultz and Falkenbach 1949, Stevens and Stevens 2007 and Thorpe 1937

Sister taxon: Eporeodon

Subtaxa: Merycoides cursor Merycoides longiceps Merycoides stouti

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Type: Merycoides cursor

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (3: Montana, Oregon, Wyoming collections)

• Harrisonian of United States (11: Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming)

• Arikareean of United States (3: Montana, Oregon, Wyoming)

• Oligocene of United States (6: Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington)

Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence

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