File:Merycodus warreni pair.jpg

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English: Merycodus warreni Leidy, 1858 - ancient pronghorn antelope skeleton (male) from the Miocene of Nebraska, USA. (public display, Nebraska State Museum of Natural History, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA)

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More than 100 skeletons of these graceful fossil "antelopes" were collected by museum crews from a quarry on the Niobrara River in the early 1930s. Only males had horns, unlike modern pronghorns, in which both sexes have horns.


Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Antilocapridae

Stratigraphy: Valentine Formation, Miocene

Locality: quarry near the Niobrara River, Cherry County, northern Nebraska, USA
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Author James St. John

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