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Yumaceras

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Mammalia

Family
  
†Palaeomerycidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Artiodactyla

Tribe
  
†Cranioceratini

Yumaceras is an extinct genus of antelope-like palaeomerycid artiodactyl endemic to North America, Europe and Asia from the Miocene epoch, 13.6—5.33 Ma, existing for approximately 8.27 million years.

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Taxonomy

Yumaceras 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).

Fossil distribution

  • Norris Canyon, Contra Costa County, California
  • Cambridge Site, Frontier County, Nebraska
  • Haile V/XIXA, Alachua County, Florida
  • References

    Yumaceras Wikipedia