''Antilocapra'' is a genus of the family Antilocapridae, which contains only a single living species, the pronghorn ''(Antilocapra americana)''. Another species, the

Pacific pronghorn ''Antilocapra pacifica'', also known as the Pacific pronghorn, is an extinct antilocaprid from the Late Pleistocene of California. Description The Pacific pronghorn was described in 1991 from material found near the San Joaquin River delta near A ...

, lived in California during the

Late Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as Upper Pleistocene from a Stratigraphy, stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of ...

and survived as recently as 12,000 BP. The name means "antelope-goat". ''Antilocapra'' is the only surviving genus of pronghorn, though three other genera (''

Capromeryx ''Capromeryx'' (dwarf pronghorn) was a genus of dwarf pronghorns (Antilocapridae) that originated in North America during the Pliocene about 5 million years ago (the exact range of their presence on the landscape is still not known, but the most re ...

'', ''

Stockoceros ''Stockoceros'' is an extinct genus of the North American artiodactyl family Antilocapridae (pronghorns), known from Mexico and the southwestern United States. Its horns are each divided near their base into two prongs of roughly equal length. T ...

'' and ''

Tetrameryx ''Tetrameryx'' is an extinct genus of the North American artiodactyl family Antilocapridae, known from Mexico, the western United States, and Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Cana ...

'') existed in

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

up until the end of the Pleistocene.

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Mammal genera Mammal genera with one living species Pronghorns Taxa named by George Ord {{eventoedungulate-stub