Hypsiops

Hypsiops
Temporal range: Late Oligocene
Hypsiops breviceps
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Tylopoda
Family: †Merycoidodontidae
Genus: †
Schultz and Falkenbach (1950)
Species
  • H. breviceps Douglass 1907
  • H. erythroceps Stock 1932

Hypsiops is an extinct genus of oreodont of the family Merycoidodontidae endemic to North America. They lived during the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene epochs, 20.4—16.0 mya, existing for approximately 4 million years.[1] Fossils have been uncovered throughout the western U.S. in Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, and Nebraska.

References

  1. ^ Hypsiops at fossilworks


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