- Cranioceras
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Cranioceras
Temporal range: Miocene to PlioceneCranioceras skinneri skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Suborder: Ruminantia Superfamily: Cervoidea Family: †Dromomerycidae Genus: †Cranioceras
Matthew, 1918Species Cranioceras is an extinct genus of artiodactyl from the Miocene to the Pliocene in the United States.
Sources
- After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past) by Donald R. Prothero
- Dinosaur Encyclopedia by Jayne Parsons
- The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth, Second Edition by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Big Book Of Dinosaurs by David Norman
External links
- Cranioceras in the Paleobiology Database
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate stubs
- Prehistoric cervoids
- Miocene mammals
- Pliocene mammals
- Pliocene extinctions
- Prehistoric mammals of North America
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