Longirostromeryx Frick 1937 (musk deer)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Moschidae

Full reference: C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669

Parent taxon: Blastomerycinae according to D. R. Prothero 2008

See also Carroll 1988, Frick 1937, Prothero 2007 and Webb 1998

Sister taxa: Blastomeryx, Machaeromeryx, Parablastomeryx, Problastomeryx, Pseudoblastomeryx

Subtaxa: Longirostromeryx clarendonensis Longirostromeryx novomexicanus Longirostromeryx wellsi

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Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (36: Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas collections)

Total: 36 collections each including a single occurrence

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