Antilocapra

Antilocapra
Temporal range: 2.5–0 Ma
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Early Pleistocene – Recent[1]
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Antilocapridae
Tribe: Antilocaprini
Genus: Antilocapra
Ord, 1818
Type species
Antilope americana[2]
Ord, 1815
Species

Antilocapra americana
†Antilocapra pacifica

Antilocapra is a genus of the family Antilocapridae, which contains only a single living species, the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). Another species, the Pacific pronghorn, lived in California during the Late Pleistocene and survived as recently as 12,000 BP.[3] The name means "antelope-goat".

Antilocapra is the only surviving genus of pronghorn, though three other genera (Capromeryx,[4][5] Stockoceros[6][7] and Tetrameryx[8]) existed in North America up until the end of the Pleistocene.

  1. ^ "Antilocapra". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  2. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  3. ^ Richards, Gary D.; McCrossin, Monte L. (1991). "A new species of antilocapra from the late Quaternary of California". Geobios. 24 (5): 623–635. Bibcode:1991Geobi..24..623R. doi:10.1016/0016-6995(91)80027-W.
  4. ^ "Capromeryx furcifer Matthew 1902". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Capromeryx minor Taylor 1911". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Stockoceros conklingi Stock 1930". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Stockoceros onusrosagris Roosevelt and Burden 1934". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  8. ^ "Tetrameryx shuleri Lull 1921". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.