- been proposed. When alive,
protoceratids would have
resembled deer,
though they were not
directly related.
Protoceratids ranged from 1 to 2 m in length...
- family. It was also the last, and had what is
considered to be the
protoceratids'
strangest set of horns. The two
horns above its eyes
looked fairly...
- 3 in) long and
resembled a deer in
terms of body shape. Like some
other protoceratids it had
three pairs of
blunt horns on its skull. In life
these were probably...
- The
White River Fauna are
fossil animals found in the
White River Group of
South Dakota,
North Dakota, Wyoming,
Colorado and
Nebraska in the
United States...
-
seeing po****tions recede. Three-toed
horses (Nannippus), oreodonts,
protoceratids, and
chalicotheres became extinct.
Borophagine dogs and Agriotherium...
- of
those families, such as the bony
protuberances on the
skulls of
protoceratids or the
strongly elongated limbs of camels. Like
other tylopods, oromerycids...
-
Natural History.
Kyptoceras is the last
known member of the family. The
protoceratids were
believed to have been
driven to
extinction by more
advanced grazing...
-
themselves lacked antlers.
Another contemporaneous form was the four-horned
protoceratid Protoceras, that was
replaced by
Syndyoceras in the Miocene;
these animals...
- rhinocerotids,
hipparionine equids), and
Artiodactyla (tay****uids,
protoceratids, camelids, "pseudoceratines," cervids, antilocaprids).
North America...
-
closely related to camelids. Body m**** was
similar to
other Eocene protoceratids such as
Heteromeryx and
Poabromylus yet
greater than
Leptotragulus and...
