Heteroprox
| Heteroprox Temporal range: Miocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Cervidae |
| Genus: | †Heteroprox Schaub, 1928 |
| Type species | |
| †Heteroprox larteti Filhol, 1891 (as Cervus larteti) | |
| Species | |
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Heteroprox is an extinct genus of deer from the Miocene of Europe.
Description
[edit]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).[1]
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.[1]
Palaeoecology
[edit]Dental microwear and mesowear indicates that H. larteti consumed significant quantities of abrasive grasses.[2]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Agustí, Jordi; Antón, Mauricio (2002). Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe. Columbia University Press. p. 141. ISBN 9780231116411.
- ↑ DeMiguel, Daniel; Azanza, Beatriz; Morales, Jorge (15 March 2011). "Paleoenvironments and paleoclimate of the Middle Miocene of central Spain: A reconstruction from dental wear of ruminants". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 302 (3–4): 452–463. Bibcode:2011PPP...302..452D. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.02.005. Retrieved 1 January 2025 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
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