Synthetoceras tricornatus Altirhinus South Dakota and Wyoming

South Dakota and Wyoming

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procedencia geológica y posible ecología

indicates that it fed on large bony fish

Synthetoceras tricornatus Altirhinus South Dakota and WyomingSynthetoceras tricornatus was an extinct artiodactyl mammal belonging to Protoceratidae, an exclusively North American family of ungulates that has no living representatives. It lived during the Late Miocene of North America and is particularly well represented in Clarendonian faunas from the southern United States, with important records from Texas and other regions of the Great Plains. Although its general appearance may superficially resemble that