Agalmaceros
Appearance
Agalmaceros | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Suborder: | Ruminantia |
Infraorder: | Pecora |
Family: | Cervidae |
Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
Genus: | †Agalmaceros Hoffstetter 1952 |
Type species | |
A. blicki Frick 1937
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Species | |
A. blicki Frick 1937 |
Agalmaceros is an extinct genus of deer of the Cervidae family, that lived in South America during the Pleistocene. The type species is A. blicki.[1] Remains have only been found in Ecuador. It showed a clear affinity to Andean or temperate habitats.[2] Agalmaceros blicki is estimated to have been 60 kilograms (130 lb) in weight.[3]
References
- ^ "Agalmaceros blicki". Fossilworks.org. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- ^ Ochsenius, Claudio (1985). "Pleniglacial Desertization, Large-AnimalMassExtinction and Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in South America" (PDF). Revista de Geografía Norte Grande. 12: 35–47.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Lyons, Kathleen (2004). "Of mice, mastodons and men: human-mediated extinctions on four continents" (PDF). Evolutionary Ecology Research. 6: 339–358.