Leptomeryx
Leptomeryx | |
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Skeleton, Paleontology Museum of Zurich | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | †Leptomerycidae |
Subfamily: | †Leptomerycinae |
Genus: | †Leptomeryx Leidy, 1853 |
Type species | |
†Leptomeryx evansi | |
Species | |
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Leptomeryx is an extinct genus of ruminant of the family Leptomerycidae, endemic to North America during the Eocene through Oligocene 38–24.8 Mya, existing for approximately 13.2 million years. It was a small deer-like ruminant with somewhat slender body.
Fossil distribution
Sites and species recovered:
- Titus Canyon, Inyo County, California (L.blacki) ~30.6—33.9 Ma.
- UNSM Sx-8 (Orella C), Sioux County, Nebraska (L. elissae) ~33.9—24.8 Ma.
- Anxiety Butte, Saskatchewan, Canada (L. sp., L. evansi) ~38—24.8 Ma.
- Calf Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada, (L. mammifer) ~38—33.3 Ma.
- Toadstool Park, Sioux County, Nebraska (L. speciosus) ~37.2—33.3 Ma.
- Medicine Pole Hills, Bowman County, North Dakota (L. yoderi) ~38—33.9 Ma.
Categories:
- Eocene even-toed ungulates
- Oligocene even-toed ungulates
- Eocene mammals of North America
- Oligocene mammals of North America
- White River Fauna
- Eocene United States
- Paleogene United States
- Eocene genus first appearances
- Chattian genus extinctions
- Fossil taxa described in 1853
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate genera
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate stubs