| Source Data | |
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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Leptomerycidae : Leptomeryx : Leptomeryx esulcatus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Leptomerycidae : Leptomeryx : Leptomeryx esulcatus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Leptomeryx |
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| Scientific Name | Leptomeryx esulcatus (Cope, 1889) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Leptomeryx esulcatus | species | belongs to Leptomeryx | stated without evidence | Cope, 1889 | | Leptomeryx esulcatus | species | belongs to Leptomeryx | stated with evidence | Scott, 1940 | | Leptomeryx esulcatus | species | belongs to Hendryomeryx | stated without evidence | Storer, 1981 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 33.9 - 33.3 Ma
Oligocene |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Artiodactyla) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Diet | frugivore (based on Leptomerycidae) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. D. Cope. 1889. The Vertebrata of the Swift Current River, II. The American Naturalist 23(267):151-155 |
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| Cope E. D. The Vertebrata of the Swift Current River, II, The American Naturalist 23 267, 151-155 |
| Cope E. D. On vertebrata from the Tertiary and Cretaceous rocks of the North West Territory: The species from the Oligocene or Lower Miocene beds of the Cypress Hills, Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 3, 1-25 |
| Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868 |
| Lambe L. M. (1908) The Vertebrata of the Oligocene of the Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 3 4, 1-65 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61444 |
| Scott W. B. (1940) The mammalian fauna of the White River Oligocene; Part 4, Artiodactyla; Part 5, Perissodactyla, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 28 4, 363-746 |
| Storer J. E. (1981) Leptomerycid Artiodactyla of the Calf Creek Local Fauna (Cypress Hills Formation, Oligocene, Chadronian), Saskatchewan, Natural History Contributions 3, 1-32 |
| Heaton T. H., Emry R. J. (1996) Leptomerycidae, The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America, 581-608 doi:10.1017/CBO9780511665431.028 |
| Vislobokova I. A. (2001) Evolution and classification of Tragulina (Ruminantia, Artiodactyla), Paleontological Journal Suppl. 2, S69-S145 |
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