Cranioceras

Cranioceras Temporal range: Miocene to Pliocene
Cranioceras skinneri skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	†Dromomerycidae
Tribe:	†Cranioceratini
Genus:	†Cranioceras Matthew, 1918
Species
†C. unicornis Matthew, 1918(type) †C. clarendonensis Frick, 1937 †C. pawniensis Frick, 1937 †C. teres (Cope, 1874)

Cranioceras is an extinct genus of artiodactyl from the Miocene to the Pliocene in the United States.

Sources

• After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past) by Donald R. Prothero
• Dinosaur Encyclopedia by Jayne Parsons
• The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth, Second Edition by Stephen Jay Gould
• The Big Book Of Dinosaurs by David Norman

External links

• Cranioceras in the Paleobiology Database