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| Pediomeryx | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | †Dromomerycidae |
| Tribe: | †Cranioceratini |
| Genus: | †Pediomeryx Stirton, 1936 |
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| Range of Pediomeryx based on fossil distribution | |
Pediomeryx is an extinct genus of artiodactyl, of the family Dromomerycidae, endemic to North America. It lived during the Late Miocene Early Pliocene 10.3—4.9 Ma, existing for approximately 5 million years.[1] Fossils have been recovered from the Midway Site in Florida, the Gray Fossil Site in northeast Tennessee, several sites in Nebraska and Wyoming, Saskatchewan, and Boron, California.
Description
[edit]They were comparable in size to red deer, with most specimens weighing 100–200 kg but surpassing 400 kg in the case of P. figginsi.[2]
Palaeoecology
[edit]Dental mesowear and enamel δ13C from the Optima site in Oklahoma suggest that P. hemphillensis was a mixed feeder that predominantly fed on C3 plants, while at the Coffee Ranch site in Texas, about a fifth of the individuals were found to be non-strict grazers and the rest mixed feeders.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Pediomeryx at fossilworks
- ↑ David Lambert, W. (2006). "Functional Convergence of Ecosystems: Evidence from Body Mass Distributions of North American Late Miocene Mammal Faunas". Ecosystems. 9 (9): 97–118. Bibcode:2006Ecosy...9...97L. doi:10.1007/s10021-005-0076-8. Retrieved 9 September 2025 – via ResearchGate.
- ↑ Frederickson, J. A.; Cohen, J. E.; Engel, M. H.; Hunt, T. C.; Wilbert, G. A.; Castaneda, O. S.; Czaplewski, N. J. (2022). "The paleoecology of the Late Miocene mammals from the Optima Local Fauna of Oklahoma, USA". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 67 (1). doi:10.4202/app.00941.2021. ISSN 0567-7920. Retrieved 9 September 2025 – via Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
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