Extinct genus of mammals
Dorcatherium
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| Dorcatherium naui skeleton, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain:
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Eukaryota
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Chordata
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| Class:
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Mammalia
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| Order:
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Artiodactyla
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| Family:
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Tragulidae
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| Genus:
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†Dorcatherium
Johann Jakob Kaup, 1833
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| Type species
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†Dorcatherium naui
Kaup & Scholl, 1834
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| Other species
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- †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
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Dorcatherium by Mauricio Anton
Dorcatherium minus jaw fragments, Natural History Museum, London
Dorcatherium is an extinct genus of tragulid ruminant which existed in Europe, East Africa and the Siwaliks during the Miocene and Possibly Pliocene .[1]
References
- ^ McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6.
