Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Alternative combination: Cosoryx wilsoni
Full reference: C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669
Belongs to Cosoryx (Paracosoryx) according to C. Frick 1937
See also Beatty and Martin 2009, Davis 2007 and Janis and Manning 1998
Sister taxon: Cosoryx (Paracosoryx) sabulonis
Type specimen: F:AM 32470, a partial skeleton (crushed skull with tall, slender horns with burrs and P2-M3, muzzle missing). Its type locality is Long Quarry, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial horizon in the Sheep Creek Formation of Nebraska.
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (6: Nebraska, Nevada, Wyoming collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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