Yumaceras is an extinct genus of antelope-like palaeomerycid artiodactyl endemic to North America from the Miocene epoch, 13.6—5.33 Ma, existing for approximately 8.27 million years.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | †Dromomerycidae |
| Tribe: | †Cranioceratini |
| Genus: | †Yumaceras Frick, 1937 |
Taxonomy
editYumaceras was named by Frick (1937). It was synonymized subjectively with Pediomeryx by Savage (1941) and Janis and Manning (1998); it was reranked as Pediomeryx (Yumaceras) by Webb (1983); it was synonymized subjectively with Cranioceras by Tedford et al. (1987). It was assigned to Pediomeryx by Webb (1983); and to Cranioceratini by Prothero and Liter (2007).[2][3][4]
Fossil distribution
edit- Norris Canyon, Contra Costa County, California
- Cambridge Site, Frontier County, Nebraska
- Haile V/XIXA, Alachua County, Florida
References
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- ^ PaleoBiology Database: Yumaceras, basic info
- ^ C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669
- ^ D. E. Savage. 1941. American Midland Naturalist 25
- ^ D. R. Prothero and M. R. Liter. 2007. Family Palaeomerycidae. in D. R. Prothero and S. Foss (eds.), The Evolution of Artiodactyls 241-248
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