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Syndyoceras
Temporal range: Miocene
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Skeleton, Nebraska State Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Artiodactyla
Family:
†Protoceratidae
Subfamily:
†Synthetoceratinae
Tribe:
†Kyptoceratini
Genus:
†Syndyoceras
Species:
†S. cooki
Binomial name
†Syndyoceras cooki
Barbour, 1905
Syndyoceras is a small extinct genus of Artiodactyla, of the family Protoceratidae, endemic to central North America from the Miocene epoch (24.8—20.6 Ma), existing for approximately 4.2 million years.[1]
existing for approximately 4.2 million years. Syndyoceras was named by Barbour (1905). Its type is Syndyoceras cooki. It was assigned to Protoceratidae by...
form was the four-horned protoceratid Protoceras, that was replaced by Syndyoceras in the Miocene; these animals were unique in having a horn on the nose...
rostral horns above their noses. These horns were either paired, as in Syndyoceras, or fused at the base, and branching into two near the tip, as in Synthetoceras...
are relatives of rhinos and horses. Merychyus, a sheep-like oreodont. Syndyoceras, antelope-like mammal and extinct relatives of artiodactyls. Nebraska...
Oromerycidae Genus Protylopus Family Protoceratidae Genus Protoceras Genus Syndyoceras Genus Synthetoceras Genus Kyptoceras Genus Pseudoprotoceras Family Climacoceratidae...
Kyptoceratini and Synthetoceratini. Tribe Kyptoceratini Genus Kyptoceras Genus Syndyoceras Tribe Synthetoceratini Genus Lambdoceras Genus Prosynthetoceras Genus...
approximately 7 million years. In appearance, Prosynthetoceras looked much like Syndyoceras, Kyptoceras, and Synthetoceras with three horns, one on the snout, and...
al. (2003) and Prothero and Ludtke (2007). Kyptoceras (type genus), Syndyoceras PaleoBiology Database: Kyptoceratini, basic info S. D. Webb. 1981. Journal...
locality for species †Swartzia Sylvilagus Symplocos Synaptomys †Syndyoceras †Syndyoceras cooki Syrphus Tachycineta – or unidentified comparable form †Tachycineta...
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