''Dromomeryx'' is an extinct
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
Artiodactyla
The even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla , ) are ungulates—hoofed animals—which bear weight equally on two (an even number) of their five toes: the third and fourth. The other three toes are either present, absent, vestigial, or pointing poster ...
, of the family
Palaeomerycidae, endemic to
North America.
References
Palaeomerycidae
Miocene even-toed ungulates
Miocene genus extinctions
Miocene mammals of North America
Prehistoric even-toed ungulate genera
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