Pseudoprotoceras

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Pseudoprotoceras
Fossil range: Late Eocene

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	†Protoceratidae
Genus:	†Pseudoprotoceras Cook, 1934

Type species

†Pseudoprotoceras longinaris

Species

†P. longinaris
†P. semicinctus
†P. taylori

Pseudoprotoceras is an extinct genus of artiodactyl in the family Protoceratidae.

[edit] References

Emry, R. J., and J. E. Storer. 1981. The hornless protoceratid Pseudoprotoceras (Tylopoda: Artiodactyla) in the early Oligocene of Saskatchewan and Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1:101-110.
McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8