Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Alternative combination: Breameryx mexicana
Full reference: E. L. Furlong. 1925. Notes on the Occurrence of Mammalian Remains in the Pleistocene of Mexico, with a Description of a New Species Capromeryx mexicana. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 15(5):137-152
Belongs to Capromeryx according to C. M. Janis and E. Manning 1998
See also Furlong 1925, Hibbard and Taylor 1960, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and Morgan and Morgan 1995
Sister taxa: Capromeryx arizonensis, Capromeryx furcifer, Capromeryx gidleyi, Capromeryx minor, Capromeryx tauntonensis
Type specimen: UCMP 26648, a partial skeleton (skull and large part of skeleton of an adult individual). Its type locality is El Tajo UCMP V2501, which is in a Pleistocene fissure fill breccia in Mexico.
Ecology: ground dwelling browser-grazer
Distribution: found only at El Tajo UCMP V2501
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.