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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Promerycochoerus : Promerycochoerus carrikeri |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Merycoidodontidae : Promerycochoerus : Promerycochoerus carrikeri |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Promerycochoerus |
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| Scientific Name | Promerycochoerus carrikeri (Peterson, 1907) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Promerycochoerus carrikeri | species | belongs to Promerycochoerus | stated without evidence | Peterson, 1907 | | Promerycochoerus carrikeri | species | belongs to Promerycochoerus | stated with evidence | Schultz and Falkenbach, 1949 | | Promerycochoerus carrikeri | species | belongs to Merycochoerus | stated without evidence | Lander, 1998 | | Promerycochoerus carrikeri | species | belongs to Promerycochoerus | stated without evidence | Stevens and Stevens, 2007 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 30.8 - 24.8 Ma
Oligocene |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 24.8 - 20.4 Ma
Cenozoic |
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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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| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1907 | Promerycochoerus carrikeri Peterson |
| 1907 | Promerycochoerus vantasselensis Peterson |
| 1924 | Promerycochoerus thomsoni Loomis |
| 1937 | Promerycochoerus carrikeri Thorpe p. 106 figs. Figs. 68-70; PI. X, fig. 1 ; PI. XLV, fig. 1 |
| 1937 | Promerycochoerus thomsoni Thorpe p. 146 figs. Figs. 106-107; PI. XIX; PI. XX, fig. 1 |
| 1937 | Promerycochoerus vantasselensis Thorpe p. 147 figs. Figs. 108-110; PI. XLV, fig. 2 |
| 1949 | Promerycochoerus carrikeri Schultz and Falkenbach p. 93 figs. 1-5, 11-14, 25, 26 |
| 1998 | Merycochoerus carrikeri Lander |
| 1998 | Merycochoerus vantasselensis Lander |
| 2007 | Promerycochoerus carrikeri Stevens and Stevens p. 160 |
| 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. (1949) Promerycochoerinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 93 3, 69-198 |
| Lander B. (1998) Oreodontoidea, Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America, 402-425 |
| Stevens M. S., Stevens J. B. (2007) Family Merycoidodontidae, The Evolution of Artiodactyls, 157-168 |
Promerycochoerus carrikeri ✝
