Aletomeryx occidentalis Whistler 1984 (ruminant)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae

Full reference: D. P. Whistler. 1984. Boron Local Fauna. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 355:1-36

Belongs to Aletomeryx according to D. R. Prothero and M. R. Liter 2008

See also Prothero and Liter 2007 and Whistler 1984

Sister taxa: Aletomeryx gracilis, Aletomeryx marslandensis, Blastomeryx pristinus

Type specimen: UCMP V-310335, a mandible. Its type locality is Boron, which is in a Hemingfordian fluvial claystone/sandstone in the Kramer Beds Formation of California.

Ecology: ground dwelling grazer

Distribution: found only at Boron

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