Longirostromeryx

Longirostromeryx Temporal range: middle Miocene to late Pliocene
Female from the Ashfall Fossil Beds
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Moschidae
Subfamily:	†Blastomerycinae
Genus:	†Longirostromeryx Frick, 1937
Type species
†Blastomeryx wellsi
Species
†?L. blicki †L. clarendoniensis †L. novomexicanus †L. wellsi

Longirostromeryx is an extinct genus of musk deer, that lived during the Miocene epoch in what is now central North America. There are three, perhaps four, recognized species: Longirostromeryx blicki, L. clarendoniensis, L. novomexicanus, and L. wellsi.

Skull replicas: male (top), female (bottom)

References

• McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
• Webb, S.D., 1998. Hornless ruminants. pp. 463–476 in C.M. Janis, K.M. Scott, and L.L. Jacobs (eds.) Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-35519-2
• The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth by Jean-Paul Tibbles, Peter Andrews, John Barber, and Michael Benton