Longirostromeryx

Longirostromeryx
Temporal range: middle Miocene to late Pliocene[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Moschidae
Subfamily: Blastomerycinae
Genus: Longirostromeryx
Frick, 1937
Type species
Blastomeryx wellsi
Species[2]
  • ?L. blicki
  • L. clarendoniensis
  • L. novomexicanus
  • L. wellsi

Longirostromeryx is an extinct genus of saber-toothed deer.

Longirostromeryx lived during the Miocene epoch in what is now central North America. There are three, perhaps four, recognized species: Longirostromeryx blicki, L. clarendoniensis, L. novomexicanus, and L. wellsi.

Notes

  1. McKenna & Bell, 1997, p. 421.
  2. Webb, 1998, p.473

References

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