Stockoceros

Stockoceros
Temporal range:
S. conklingi skeleton
Life restoration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Antilocapridae
Tribe: Stockoceratini
Genus: Stockoceros
Skinner, 1942
Species

Stockoceros is an extinct genus of the North American artiodactyl family Antilocapridae (pronghorns),[2] known from what is now Mexico and the southwestern United States.[1] The genus survived until about 12,000 years ago, and was present when Paleo-Indians reached North America.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b "Stockoceros Skinner 1942". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ Rivals, F.; Semprebon, G. M. (2006). "A comparison of the dietary habits of a large sample of the Pleistocene pronghorn Stockoceros onusrosagris from the Papago Springs Cave in Arizona to the modern Antilocapra americana". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (2): 495. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[495:ACOTDH]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 86134472.
  3. ^ "Stockoceros conklingi Stock 1930". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Stockoceros onusrosagris Roosevelt and Burden 1934". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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