Pediomeryx
Pediomeryx Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | †Dromomerycidae |
Tribe: | †Cranioceratini |
Genus: | †Pediomeryx Stirton, 1936 |
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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]
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