Biology:Proantilocapra

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Short description: Extinct genus of mammals


Proantilocapra
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Antilocapridae
Genus: Proantilocapra
Barbour & Schultz, 1934
Species:
P. platycornea
Binomial name
Proantilocapra platycornea
Barbour & Schultz, 1934

Proantilocapra is an extinct genus of the artiodactyl family Antilocapridae. The remains of this animal appeared in the Ash Hollow Formation in Nebraska, United States , and they last appeared 13.6 million years ago, during the Miocene epoch.[1]

References

  1. E. H. Barbour and C. B. Schultz. 1934. A new antilocaprid and a new cervid from the late Tertiary of Nebraska. American Museum Novitates 734:1-4

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