Syndyoceras Temporal range:
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Skeleton, Nebraska State Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | †Protoceratidae |
Subfamily: | †Synthetoceratinae |
Tribe: | †Kyptoceratini |
Genus: | †Syndyoceras |
Species: | †S. cooki
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Binomial name | |
†Syndyoceras cooki Barbour, 1905
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Syndyoceras is a small extinct genus of Artiodactyla, of the family Protoceratidae, endemic to central North America from the Miocene epoch (24.8—20.6 Ma), existing for approximately 4.2 million years.[1]