Dorcatherium

Dorcatherium; Temporal range: Miocene, Possibly Pliocene 23–5.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Dorcatherium naui skeleton, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Tragulidae
Genus:	†Dorcatherium; Johann Jakob Kaup, 1833
Type species
	†Dorcatherium naui; Kaup & Scholl, 1834
Other species
	†Dorcatherium guntianum von Meyer, 1846 ; †Dorcatherium majus Lydekker, 1876 ; †Dorcatherium jourdani Déperet, 1887 ; †Dorcatherium puyhauberti Arambourg & Piveteau, 1929 ; †Dorcatherium pigotti Whitworth, 1958 ; †Dorcatherium bulgaricum? Bakalov & Nikolov, 1962 ; †Dorcatherium nagrii Prasad, 1970 ; †Dorcatherium libiensis Hamilton, 1973 ; †Dorcatherium minimus West, 1980 ; †Dorcatherium orientale Qiu Zhanxiang & Gu Yumin, 1991 ; †Dorcatherium maliki Kostopoulos & Sen, 2016 ; †Dorcatherium dehmi Guzmán, Sandoval & Rössner, 2021 ;

Dorcatherium is an extinct genus of tragulid ruminant which existed in Europe, East Africa and the Siwaliks during the Miocene and possibly Pliocene.^[1]

Palaeoecology

D. naui was partially frugivorous, the evidence for this being its dental enamel's ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr, δ¹⁸O_CO3, and δ¹³C values.^[2]

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^ Aiglstorfer, Manuela; Bocherens, Hervé; Böhme, Madelaine (18 February 2014). "Large mammal ecology in the late Middle Miocene Gratkorn locality (Austria)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 94 (1): 189–213. doi:10.1007/s12549-013-0145-5. ISSN 1867-1594. Retrieved 27 November 2024 – via Springer Nature Link.

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