Kyptoceras, the Glossary
Kyptoceras is a small extinct artiodactyl ungulate mammal of the family Protoceratidae, endemic to southeastern North America from the Miocene to Early Pliocene epoch 23.03—3.6 Ma, existing for approximately.[1]
Table of Contents
9 relations: Artiodactyl, Beaufort County, North Carolina, Miocene, North America, Polk County, Florida, Protoceratidae, Year, Yorktown Formation, Zanclean.
- Protoceratids
Artiodactyl
Artiodactyls are placental mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla. Typically, they are ungulates which bear weight equally on two (an even number) of their five toes (the third and fourth, often in the form of a hoof).
See Kyptoceras and Artiodactyl
Beaufort County, North Carolina
Beaufort County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Polk County, Florida
Polk County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Florida.
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Protoceratidae
Protoceratidae is an extinct family of herbivorous North American artiodactyls (even-toed ungulates) that lived during the Eocene through Pliocene. Kyptoceras and Protoceratidae are Pliocene Artiodactyla.
See Kyptoceras and Protoceratidae
Year
A year is the time taken for astronomical objects to complete one orbit.
Yorktown Formation
The Yorktown Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in the Coastal Plain of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Zanclean
The Zanclean is the lowest stage or earliest age on the geologic time scale of the Pliocene.
See also
Protoceratids
- Heteromeryx
- Kyptoceras
- Kyptoceratini
- Lambdoceras
- Leptoreodon
- Leptotragulus
- Paratoceras
- Poabromylus
- Prosynthetoceras
- Protoceras
- Pseudoprotoceras
- Syndyoceras
- Synthetoceras
- Synthetoceratinae
- Synthetoceratini
- Toromeryx
- Trigenicus