†tribe Kyptoceratini Webb 1981 (protoceratid)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae

Full reference: S. D. Webb. 1981. Kyptoceras amatorum, New Genus and Species from the Pliocene of Florida, the Last Protoceratid Artiodactyl. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(3-4):357-365

Parent taxon: Synthetoceratinae according to D. R. Prothero and J. A. Ludtke 2007

See also Prothero 1998, Webb 1981 and Webb et al. 2003

Sister taxa: Synthetoceras, Synthetoceratini

Subtaxa: Kyptoceras Syndyoceras

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Type: Kyptoceras

Ecology: ground dwelling browser

Distribution:

• Pliocene of United States (2: North Carolina collections)

• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene of Mexico (1)

• Harrisonian of United States (7: Nebraska, Wyoming)

Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence

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