Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Rank Subfamily | Phylum Chordata Order Artiodactyla | |
Similar Protoceratidae, Kyptoceras, Syndyoceras, Protoceras, Synthetoceras | ||
Synthetoceratinae is a subfamily of Protoceratidae (deer-like) herbivorous mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla endemic to North America during the Miocene epoch, living 23.03—3.9 Ma, existing for approximately 19.13 million years.
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Taxonomy
Synthetoceratinae was named by Frick (1937). Its type is Synthetoceras. It was considered monophyletic by Webb et al. (2003). It was assigned to Protoceratidae by Webb (1981), Prothero (1998), Webb et al. (2003), Hulbert and Whitmore (2006) and Prothero and Ludtke (2007).
Tribes
Synthetoceratinae contains the tribes Kyptoceratini and Synthetoceratini. Within these tribes are the genus Kyptoceras and Syndyoceras respectively.
References
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