Heteroprox

Heteroprox
Temporal range: 15.97–11.61 Ma
Miocene
Heteroprox larteti 434.jpg
Skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Genus: Heteroprox
Schaub, 1928
Type species
Heteroprox larteti
Filhol, 1891 (as Cervus larteti)
Species
  • H. anatoliensis
  • H. eggeri
  • H. larteti
  • H. moralesi

Heteroprox is an extinct genus of deer from the Miocene of Europe.

Description

Heteroprox was a mid-sized deer that would have been similar in appearance to a muntjac. It would have stood about 1 m (3.3 ft) tall and weighed around 35 kg (77 lb).

It had fairly long legs, and two-pronged antlers. Based on its leg proportions, it was probably semi-aquatic and lived in humid, swampy environments.



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