Kyptoceras

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Kyptoceras
Fossil range: Early Pliocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Protoceratidae
Genus: Kyptoceras
Species: K. amatorum
Binomial name
Kyptoceras amatorum
Webb, 1981

Kyptoceras is an extinct genus of Protoceratidae, and the last known member of the family.

[edit] Sources

  • Prothero D.R., 1998. Protoceratidae. pp.431-438 in C.M. Janis, K.M. Scott, and L.L. Jacobs (eds.) Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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