Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Moschidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Pecora according to M. Spaulding et al. 2009
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Becker et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Gray 1821, Hassanin and Douzery 2003, Nowak 1991 and Prothero 2008
Sister taxa: Antilocapridae, Babameryx, Bovidae, Bugtimeryx, Camelopardalidae, Cervidae, Cervoidea, Dremotherium, Giraffidae, Leptomerycidae, Namibiomeryx, Orangemeryx, Prodremotheridae, Propalaeoryx, Sperrgebietomeryx, Walangania
Subtaxa: Bedenomeryx Blastomerycinae Friburgomeryx Hispanomeryx Hydropotopsis Moschinae Oriomeryx Pomelomeryx
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (4 collections)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Canada (9: Saskatchewan), China (10), the Czech Republic (2), France (6), Germany (7), Hungary (1), Mongolia (4), Panama (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (12), Switzerland (4), United States (105: 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)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (2), Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 194 collections including 209 occurrences