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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Merychyus : Merychyus minimus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Merychyus : Merychyus minimus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
(PBDB,GBIF) | |
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| Generic Name | Merychyus |
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| Scientific Name | Merychyus minimus Peterson, 1907 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Merychyus minimus | species | belongs to Merychyus | stated without evidence | Peterson, 1907 | | Merychyus minimus | subspecies | belongs to Merychyus elegans | stated without evidence | Peterson, 1923 | | Merychyus minimus | subspecies | belongs to Merychyus arenarum | stated without evidence | Thorpe, 1937 | | Merychyus minimus | species | belongs to Merychyus | stated with evidence | Schultz and Falkenbach, 1947 | | Merychyus minimus | species | subjective synonym of Merychyus elegans | stated without evidence | Kelly and Lander, 1988 | | Merychyus minimus | species | belongs to Merychyus | stated without evidence | Lander, 1998 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 30.8 - 20.4 Ma
Cenozoic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 20.4 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Artiodactyla) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Diet | herbivore (based on Merycoidodontidae) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | O. A. Peterson. 1907. The Miocene Beds of Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming and Their Vertebrate Faunae. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4(3):21-72 |
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| Peterson O. A. (1907) The Miocene Beds of Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming and Their Vertebrate Faunae, Annals of Carnegie Museum 4 3, 21-72 |
| Loomis F. B. (1924) Miocene oreodonts in the American Museum, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 51 1, 1-37 |
| Thorpe M. R. (1937) The Merycoidodontidae, an extinct group of ruminant mammals, Peabody Museum of Natural History Memoir 3 4, 1-428 |
| Schultz C. B., Falkenbach C. H. (1947) Merychyinae, a subfamily of oreodonts, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88 4, 157-286 |
| Lander B. (1998) Oreodontoidea, Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America, 402-425 |
Merychyus minimus ✝
