Proantilocapra
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Antilocapridae
Genus: Proantilocapra
Barbour & Schultz, 1934
Species:
P. platycornea
Binomial name
Proantilocapra platycornea
Barbour & Schultz, 1934

Proantilocapra is an extinct genus of the artiodactyl family Antilocapridae. The remains of this animal appeared in the Ash Hollow Formation in Nebraska, United States, and they last appeared 13.6 million years ago, during the Miocene epoch.[1]

References

  1. E. H. Barbour and C. B. Schultz. 1934. A new antilocaprid and a new cervid from the late Tertiary of Nebraska. American Museum Novitates 734:1-4


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