Antilocapra Early | |
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Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Antilocapridae |
Tribe: | Antilocaprini |
Genus: |
Antilocapra Ord, 1818 |
Type species | |
Antilope americana
[2]
Ord, 1815
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Species | |
Antilocapra is a genus of the family Antilocapridae, which contains only a single living species, the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). Another species, the Pacific pronghorn, lived in California during the Late Pleistocene and survived as recently as 12,000 BP. [3] The name means "antelope-goat".
Antilocapra is the only surviving genus of pronghorn, though three other genera ( Capromeryx, [4] [5] Stockoceros [6] [7] and Tetrameryx [8]) existed in North America up until the end of the Pleistocene.
Antilocapra Early | |
---|---|
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Antilocapridae |
Tribe: | Antilocaprini |
Genus: |
Antilocapra Ord, 1818 |
Type species | |
Antilope americana
[2]
Ord, 1815
| |
Species | |
Antilocapra is a genus of the family Antilocapridae, which contains only a single living species, the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). Another species, the Pacific pronghorn, lived in California during the Late Pleistocene and survived as recently as 12,000 BP. [3] The name means "antelope-goat".
Antilocapra is the only surviving genus of pronghorn, though three other genera ( Capromeryx, [4] [5] Stockoceros [6] [7] and Tetrameryx [8]) existed in North America up until the end of the Pleistocene.