Merycoides

Merycoides
Temporal range: Late Oligocene
Merycoides cursor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: †Merycoidodontidae
Genus: †Merycoides
Douglass (1907)
Type species
†Merycoides cursor
Species

see text

Synonyms
  • †Paramerychyus Schultz and Falkenbach 1947

Merycoides is an extinct genus of oreodont of the subfamily Merycoidodontinae endemic to North America. It lived during the Oligocene to Late Miocene, 30.8—16.0 mya, existing for approximately 15 million years.[1] Fossils have been uncovered throughout the western U.S. as well as Florida.

Species

  • M. cursor Douglass 1907
  • M. harrisonensis Schultz & Falkenbach 1949
  • M. longiceps Douglass 1907
  • M. pariogonus Schultz & Falkenbach 1949
  • M. relictus Cope 1884

References

  1. ^ Merycoides at fossilworks


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