Tematica Animali preistorici

Merychyus calaminthus Jahns 1940

Phylum: Chordata Haeckel, 1874

Subphylum: Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812

Classe: Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758

Ordine: Artiodactyla Owen, 1848

Famiglia: Merycoidodontidae Thorpe 1923

Genere: Merychyus Leidy, 1858

Diffusione

Genere di terrestre erbivoro endemico del Nord America durante l’Eocene - Miocene (35-4,9 milioni di anni fa) vissero per circa 30 milioni di anni.

Bibliografia

–J. Leidy. 1858. Notice of Remains of Extinct Vertebrata, from the Valley of the Niobrara River, Collected during the Exploring Expedition of 1857, in Nebraska, under the Command of Lieut. G. K. Warren, U. S. Top. Eng., by Dr. F. V. Hayden, Geologist to the Expedition. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10:15-89.
–E. D. Cope. 1884. Synopsis of the species of Oreodontidae. Paleontological Bulletin 38:503-572.
–O. A. Peterson. 1907. The Miocene Beds of Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming and Their Vertebrate Faunae. Annals of Carnegie Museum 4 (3): 21-72.
–R. H. Jahns. 1940. Stratigraphy of the Easternmost Ventura Basin, California, with a Description of a New Lower Miocene Mammalian Fauna From the Tick Canyon Formation. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 514(9):145-194.
–G. G. Simpson. 1945. The principles of classification and a classification of mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 85: 1-350.
–C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1947. Merychyinae, a subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88 (4):157-286.
–B. Lander. 1998. Oreodontoidea. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America 402-425.
–M. S. Stevens and J. B. Stevens. 2007. Family Merycoidodontidae. In D. R. Prothero, S. E. Foss (eds.), The Evolution of Artiodactyls 157-168.
–E. B. Lander and E. H. Lindsay. 2011. Merychyus calaminthus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Oreodontidae) of probable early late Arikareean (late Oligocene to late early Miocene) age from the lower part of the Chalk Canyon Formation, Maricopa and Yavapai counties, central Arizona 31 (1): 215-226.

	Data: 21/01/2015 Emissione: Mammiferi preistorici Stato: Nevis