Dorcatherium
Appearance
Dorcatherium Temporal range: Miocene,
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Dorcatherium naui skeleton, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Tragulidae |
Genus: | †Dorcatherium Johann Jakob Kaup, 1833 |
Type species | |
†Dorcatherium naui Kaup & Scholl, 1834
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Other species | |
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Dorcatherium is an extinct genus of tragulid ruminant which existed in Europe, East Africa and the Siwaliks during the Miocene.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6.
Categories:
- Chevrotains
- Miocene Artiodactyla
- Cenozoic mammals of Africa
- Cenozoic mammals of Asia
- Cenozoic mammals of Europe
- Miocene mammals of Europe
- Miocene mammals of Asia
- Miocene mammals of Africa
- Miocene genus first appearances
- Miocene extinctions
- Fossil taxa described in 1833
- Prehistoric Artiodactyla genera
- Taxa named by Johann Jakob Kaup
- Prehistoric Artiodactyla stubs