Dorcatherium

From English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick

Dorcatherium
Temporal range: Miocene, Possibly Pliocene 23–5.3 Ma
Dorcatherium naui skeleton, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Other species
  • Dorcatherium guntianum von Meyer, 1846
  • Lydekker, 1876 Arambourg & Piveteau, 1929
  • Hamilton, 1973 Dorcatherium minimus
  • Dorcatherium pigotti West, 1980
  • Dorcatherium jourdani Whitworth, 1958
  • Qiu Zhanxiang & Gu Yumin, 1991 Dorcatherium maliki
  • Dorcatherium bulgaricum? Kostopoulos & Sen, 2016
  • Dorcatherium majus Déperet, 1887
  • Bakalov & Nikolov, 1962 Guzmán, Sandoval & Rössner, 2021
  • Dorcatherium nagrii Dorcatherium puyhauberti
  • Prasad, 1970 Dorcatherium dehmi
  • Dorcatherium orientale Dorcatherium libiensis
Dorcatherium by Mauricio Anton
Dorcatherium minus jaw fragments, Natural History Museum, London

Dorcatherium is an extinct genus of tragulid ruminant which existed in Europe, East Africa and the Siwaliks during the Miocene and Possibly Pliocene .[1]

References

  1. ^ 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.

Error: "Q5297574" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.