Dorcatherium

Dorcatherium Temporal range: Miocene, Possibly Pliocene 23–5.3  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Dorcatherium naui skeleton, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Tragulidae
Genus:	† Dorcatherium Johann Jakob Kaup, 1833
Type species
†Dorcatherium naui Kaup & Scholl, 1834
Other species
†Dorcatherium guntianumvon Meyer, 1846 †Dorcatherium majusLydekker, 1876 †Dorcatherium jourdaniDéperet, 1887 †Dorcatherium puyhaubertiArambourg & Piveteau, 1929 †Dorcatherium pigottiWhitworth, 1958 †Dorcatherium bulgaricum?Bakalov & Nikolov, 1962 †Dorcatherium nagriiPrasad, 1970 †Dorcatherium libiensisHamilton, 1973 †Dorcatherium minimusWest, 1980 †Dorcatherium orientaleQiu Zhanxiang & Gu Yumin, 1991 †Dorcatherium malikiKostopoulos & Sen, 2016 †Dorcatherium dehmiGuzmán, Sandoval & Rössner, 2021

Dorcatherium by Mauricio Anton

Dorcatherium minus jaw fragments, Natural History Museum, London

Dorcatherium is an extinct genus of tragulid ruminant which existed in Europe, East Africa and the Siwaliks during the Miocene and Possibly Pliocene . ^[1]

References

1. McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN   978-0-231-11013-6.