Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Alternative combination: Pronomotherium siouense
Full reference: W. J. Sinclair. 1915. Additions to the Fauna of the Lower Pliocene Snake Creek Beds (Results of the Princeton University 1914 Expedition to Nebraska). Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 54(217):73-95
Belongs to Brachycrus according to M. S. Stevens et al. 2023
See also Kelly and Lander 1988, Lander 1998, Schultz and Falkenbach 1940, Shotwell 1968, Sinclair 1915, Stevens and Stevens 2007 and Thorpe 1937
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PU 12057, a mandible (right ramus of the lower jaw with p1-m3 and alveoli of i1-c.). Its type locality is Princeton Loc. 1000C, which is in a Barstovian terrestrial horizon in the Olcott Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (14: Nebraska, New Mexico collections)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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