Tragulina
Tragulina is an infraorder of even-toed ungulates. Only the chevrotains survive to the present, including the genera Tragulus (the mouse deer) and Hyemoschus.
| Tragulina | |
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| Greater Mouse-deer (Tragulus napu) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Ruminantia |
| Infraorder: | Tragulina Flower, 1883[1] |
| Families | |
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Taxonomy
The following is the taxonomy of the group Tragulina.[2]
- Infrarorder TRAGULINA
- †Praetragulidae
- Praetragulus
- Parvitragulus
- Simimeryx
- †Archaeomerycidae
- Archaeomeryx
- Miomeryx
- Paukkaungmeryx
- †Gelocidae
- Phaneromeryx
- Paragelocus
- Paragelocus
- Gelocus
- Pseudogelocus
- Prodremotherium
- Cryptomeryx
- Pseudoceras
- Gobiomeryx
- Rutitherium
- Eumeryx
- †Hypertragulidae [3]
- Hypertragulus
- Nanotragulus
- Hypisodontinae
- †Leptomerycidae
- Hendryomeryx
- Leptomeryx
- Xinjiangmeryx
- Pseudomeryx
- Pseudoparablastomeryx
- Pronodens
- †Lophiomerycidae
- Tragulidae – chevrotains or mouse-deer
- Tragulus
- Hyemoschus
- Moschiola
- †Stenomeryx
- †Protoceratidae[5]
- †Praetragulidae
References
- "The Paleobiology Database". Retrieved May 9, 2010.
- "WikiLingue". Retrieved May 11, 2010.
- Vislobokova, I. A. (2001). Evolution and classification of Tragulina (Ruminantia, Artiodactyla). Paleontological Journal, 35(January 2001), S69–S145.
- Grégoire Métais, Jean-Loup Welcomme, and Stéphane Ducrocq (2009). "New Lophiomerycid Ruminants from the Oligocene of the Bugti Hills (Balochistan, Pakistan)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (1): 231–241. doi:10.1671/039.029.0115.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- "Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) among mammals: increased taxon sampling alters interpretations of key fossils and character evolution". PLoS ONE. 4 (9): e7062. 2009. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007062. PMC 2740860. PMID 19774069.
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