Cosoryx

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Cosoryx
Temporal range: Miocene
Merycodus furcatus fossil.jpg
C. furcatus mount
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Antilocapridae
Subfamily: Merycodontinae
Genus: Cosoryx
Leidy, 1869
Type species
Cosoryx furcatus
Leidy, 1869
Species
  • C. cerroensis
  • C. furcatus
  • C. ilfonensis
Restoration of Ramoceros and Cosoryx Merycodus osborni.jpg
Restoration of Ramoceros and Cosoryx

Cosoryx is an extinct genus of antilocaprid that lived in the Miocene of Nevada. [1] Fossils of this genus have also been found in the Santa Fe Group in New Mexico. [2]

Cosoryx has sometimes been considered synonymous with Merycodus .

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References

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