Extinct genus of mammals
Dorcatherium
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Dorcatherium naui skeleton, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Chordata
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Class:
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Mammalia
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Order:
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Artiodactyla
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Family:
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Tragulidae
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Genus:
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†Dorcatherium Johann Jakob Kaup, 1833
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Type species
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†Dorcatherium naui
Kaup & Scholl, 1834
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Other species
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- †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
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Dorcatherium is an extinct genus of tragulid ruminant which existed in Europe, East Africa and the Siwaliks during the Miocene and Possibly Pliocene .[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.