Merycoides

Merycoides is an extinct genus of oreodont of the subfamily Merycoidodontinae endemic to North America. It lived during the Oligocene to Late Miocene, 30.8—16.0 mya, existing for approximately 15 million years.^[1] Fossils have been uncovered throughout the western U.S. as well as Florida.

Merycoides Temporal range: Late Oligocene
Merycoides cursor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	†Merycoidodontidae
Genus:	†Merycoides Douglass (1907)
Type species
†Merycoides cursor
Species
see text
Synonyms
†Paramerychyus Schultz and Falkenbach 1947

Species

• M. cursor Douglass 1907
• M. harrisonensis Schultz & Falkenbach 1949
• M. longiceps Douglass 1907
• M. pariogonus Schultz & Falkenbach 1949
• M. relictus Cope 1884