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(Redirected from Dorcatherium majus) Extinct genus of mammals

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 Edit this 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 guntianum von Meyer, 1846
  • †Dorcatherium majus Lydekker, 1876
  • †Dorcatherium jourdani Déperet, 1887
  • †Dorcatherium puyhauberti Arambourg & Piveteau, 1929
  • †Dorcatherium pigotti Whitworth, 1958
  • †Dorcatherium bulgaricum? Bakalov & Nikolov, 1962
  • †Dorcatherium nagrii Prasad, 1970
  • †Dorcatherium libiensis Hamilton, 1973
  • †Dorcatherium minimus West, 1980
  • †Dorcatherium orientale Qiu Zhanxiang & Gu Yumin, 1991
  • †Dorcatherium maliki Kostopoulos & Sen, 2016
  • †Dorcatherium dehmi Guzmán, 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 .

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.
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