Heteroprox
Temporal range: Miocene
Skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Genus: †Heteroprox
Schaub, 1928
Type species
†Heteroprox larteti
Filhol, 1891 (as Cervus larteti)
Species
  • H. anatoliensis
  • H. eggeri
  • H. larteti
  • H. moralesi

Heteroprox is an extinct genus of deer from the Miocene of Europe.

Description

Heteroprox was a mid-sized deer that would have been similar in appearance to a muntjac. It would have stood about 1 m (3.3 ft) tall and weighed around 35 kg (77 lb).[1]

It had fairly long legs, and two-pronged antlers. Based on its leg proportions, it was probably semi-aquatic and lived in humid, swampy environments.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Agustí, Jordi; Antón, Mauricio (2002). Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe. Columbia University Press. p. 141. ISBN 9780231116411.


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