Dorcatherium is an extinct genus of tragulid ruminant which existed in Europe, East Africa and the Siwaliks during the Miocene and Possibly Pliocene .[1]

Dorcatherium
Temporal range: Miocene, Possibly Pliocene 23–5.3 Ma
Dorcatherium naui skeleton, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Tragulidae
Genus: Dorcatherium
Johann Jakob Kaup, 1833
Type species
Dorcatherium naui
Kaup & Scholl, 1834
Other species
  • Dorcatherium guntianum von Meyer, 1846
  • Dorcatherium majus Lydekker, 1876
  • Dorcatherium jourdani Déperet, 1887
  • Dorcatherium puyhauberti Arambourg & Piveteau, 1929
  • Dorcatherium pigotti Whitworth, 1958
  • Dorcatherium bulgaricum? Bakalov & Nikolov, 1962
  • Dorcatherium nagrii Prasad, 1970
  • Dorcatherium libiensis Hamilton, 1973
  • Dorcatherium minimus West, 1980
  • Dorcatherium orientale Qiu Zhanxiang & Gu Yumin, 1991
  • Dorcatherium maliki Kostopoulos & Sen, 2016
  • Dorcatherium dehmi Guzmán, Sandoval & Rössner, 2021
Dorcatherium by Mauricio Anton
Dorcatherium minus jaw fragments, Natural History Museum, London

References

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  1. ^ McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6.