Cosoryx
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| Cosoryx Temporal range: Miocene
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| File:Merycodus furcatus fossil.jpg | |
| C. furcatus mount | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Antilocapridae |
| Subfamily: | †Merycodontinae |
| Genus: | †Cosoryx Leidy, 1869 |
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| †Cosoryx furcatus Leidy, 1869
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Cosoryx is an extinct genus of antilocaprid that lived in the Miocene of Nevada.[1] Fossils of this genus have also been found in the Santa Fe Group in New Mexico.[2]
Cosoryx has sometimes been considered synonymous with Merycodus.
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