Pediomeryx

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Pediomeryx
Temporal range: Late Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Dromomerycidae
Tribe: Cranioceratini
Genus: Pediomeryx
Stirton, 1936
Species
  • P. figginsi
  • P. hamiltoni
  • P. hemphillensis
  • P. ruminalis
Range of Pediomeryx based on fossil distribution

Pediomeryx is an extinct

Midway Site in Florida, the Gray Fossil Site in northeast Tennessee, several sites in Nebraska and Wyoming, Saskatchewan, and Boron, California. They were comparable in size to red deer, with most specimens weighing 100–200 kg but surpassing 400 kg in the case of P. figginsi.[2]

References