Leptomeryx | |
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Skeleton, Paleontology Museum of Zurich | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | †Leptomerycidae |
Subfamily: | †Leptomerycinae |
Genus: | †Leptomeryx Leidy, 1853 |
Type species | |
†Leptomeryx evansi | |
Species[2] | |
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Leptomeryx is an extinct genus of ruminant of the family Leptomerycidae, endemic to North America during the Eocene through Oligocene 38–24.8 Mya, existing for approximately 13.2 million years. It was a small deer-like ruminant with somewhat slender body.
Sites and species recovered: