Antilocapra
| Antilocapra | |
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| Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Antilocapridae |
| Tribe: | Antilocaprini |
| Genus: | Antilocapra Ord, 1818 |
| Type species | |
| Antilope americana[2] Ord, 1815
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| Species | |
Antilocapra is a genus of the family Antilocapridae, which contains only a single living species, the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). Another species, the Pacific pronghorn, lived in California during the Late Pleistocene and survived as recently as 12,000 BP.[3] The name means "antelope-goat".
Antilocapra is the only surviving genus of pronghorn, though three other genera (Capromeryx,[4][5] Stockoceros[6][7] and Tetrameryx[8]) existed in North America up until the end of the Pleistocene.
References
[edit]- ^ "Antilocapra". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
- ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Richards, Gary D.; McCrossin, Monte L. (1991). "A new species of antilocapra from the late Quaternary of California". Geobios. 24 (5): 623–635. Bibcode:1991Geobi..24..623R. doi:10.1016/0016-6995(91)80027-W.
- ^ "Capromeryx furcifer Matthew 1902". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Capromeryx minor Taylor 1911". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Stockoceros conklingi Stock 1930". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Stockoceros onusrosagris Roosevelt and Burden 1934". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Tetrameryx shuleri Lull 1921". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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