Archaeomeryx

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Archaeomeryx
Temporal range: Early Eocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Archaeomerycidae
Genus: Archaeomeryx
Matthew & Granger, 1925
Species:
A. optatus
Binomial name
Archaeomeryx optatus
Matthew & Granger, 1925

Archaeomeryx is an extinct genus of ruminant that lived early in the Eocene. [1] [2] [3] It is believed to be close to the ancestry of the group Pecora, which includes deer, giraffes, cows and their relatives. Unlike the modern members of this group, it had a set of functioning incisors in the upper jaw. [4] It was small in size, comparable to a modern-day mouse deer. [5] It was also very rabbit-like and had several distinctive characteristics. [6] It lived in present-day China 35 to 40 million years ago. [7]

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