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Cosoryx Temporal range:
Miocene
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C. furcatus mount | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Antilocapridae |
Subfamily: | † Merycodontinae |
Genus: | †
Cosoryx Leidy, 1869 |
Type species | |
†Cosoryx furcatus
Leidy, 1869
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Species | |
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Cosoryx is an extinct genus of antilocaprid that lived in the Miocene of Nevada. [1] Fossils of this genus have also been found in the Santa Fe Group in New Mexico. [2]
Cosoryx has sometimes been considered synonymous with Merycodus.