Micromeryx

Micromeryx
Temporal range: Miocene
Male Micromeryx skeleton, Museum am Löwentor, Stuttgart, Germany
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Moschidae
Genus: †Micromeryx
Lartet, 1851
Species

M. flourensianus Lartet 1851
M. azanzae Sánchez and Morales 2008
M.? eiselei Aiglstorfer at al. 2017[1][2]

Micromeryx is an extinct genus of musk deer that lived during the Miocene epoch (about 16-8 million years ago).[3] Fossil remains were found in Europe and Asia.[4] The earliest record (MN4) of the genus comes from the Sibnica 4 paleontological site near Rekovac in Serbia.[5][3]

  1. ^ Manuela Aiglstorfer, Loïc Costeur, Bastien Mennecart, Elmar P. J. Heizmann: Micromeryx? eiselei — A new moschid species from Steinheim am Albuch, Germany, and the first comprehensive description of moschid cranial material from the Miocene of Central Europe, in: PLOS One vom 16. Oktober 2017, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185679
  2. ^ Aiglstorfer at al.: 3D models related to the publication: Micromeryx? eiselei - a new moschid species from Steinheim am Albuch, Germany, and the first comprehensive description of moschid cranial material from the Miocene of Central Europe, PDF
  3. ^ a b Mennecart, Bastien; Aiglstorfer, Manuela; Göhlich, Ursula; Daxner-Höck, Gudrun (2019). "On the oldest Mongolian moschids (Mammalia, Ruminantia) and the early moschid evolution". Palaeontologia Electronica. 22 (2): 1–17. doi:10.26879/959.
  4. ^ Sánchez, I. M.; Morales, J. (2008). "Micromeryx azanzae sp. nov. (Ruminantia: Moschidae) from the middle-upper Miocene of Spain, and the first description of the cranium of Micromeryx". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28 (3): 873–885. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[873:MASNRM]2.0.CO;2.
  5. ^ Alaburić, Sanja; Radović, Predrag (2016). “An early record of the moschid genus Micromeryx (Mammalia, Ruminantia)”. In: Marković, Z., Milivojević, M. (Eds.), Life on the shore – geological and paleontological research in the Neogene of Sibnica and vicinity (Levač basin, Central Serbia). Part 1. Special Issue of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade: 141–148.