SUBORDER D 



ARTIODACTYLA 



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Lagomeryx Roger. Antlers either with simple tines or strongly branched ; 

 pedicle long. Size from a hare to a gazelle. Middle Miocene, L. simplicicornis 

 Schlosser. Upper Miocene, L. meyeri Hofmann. L. pumilio Roger. 



Palaeomeryx Meyer. Skull probably hornless. Molars with wrinkled 

 enamel. Superior canine large. Inferior molars with strong Palaeomeryx- 

 fold. Size from a roe-deer to a red deer. Middle Miocene, P. annedens 

 Schlosser. Upper Miocene, P. hojani, P. eminens Meyer. 



Dromomeryx Douglass. Higher, narrower and more modernised teeth than 

 in Palaeomeryx of Europe. Upper Miocene (Deep River beds) ; Montana. 

 I), horealis Cope. D. antilopiiius Scott. D. madisonius, D. americanus Douglass. 



Dicrocerus Lartet (Procerwi/its Gaudry) (Figs. 275, 276). Like Palaeomeryx, 

 but skull with bifurcate, rarely three-tined antlers. Upper Miocene ; Sansan, 

 Steinheim, etc. D. elegans Lartet. in this the 

 antlers are sometimes shed. D. furcatus Hensel. 

 With antlers persisting. 



Cervulus Blainville. Living in southern 

 India. Fossil in the Pleistocene of India. 



Cervavus Schlosser. Antlers branched. In- 



B 



T) 



Fig. 275. 



Dicrocerus furcatus Hensel sp. Upper Miocene, Steinheim, Wiir- 

 temberg. A, B, Upper and lower cheek teeth. G, Upper millc- 

 teeth (D3 and D-i). D, Lower D4. i/v 



Fig. 276. 



Dicrocerus elegans Lartet. Upper Mio- 

 cene, Sansan (Gers). Antler attached to 

 pedicle on cranium. 1/3. (After Gaudry.) 



ferior molars often with vestiges of a Palaeo7neryx-iold. Superior canine 

 rather powerful. Varying in size from the musk-deer to the roe-deer. Lower 

 Pliocene ; China. C. oweni Koken. 



Subfamily 3. Cervinae Gray. 



Antlers with short pedicle, many times branched, periodically shed ; as a ride 



present only in the m,ale, sometimes, however, in both sexes. Superior canine 



weak or absent. Cheek teeth brachyodont. Manus either plesiometacarpal or 

 teleometacarpal. 



Living in the Northern Hemisphere and in South America. With the 

 exception of Cervus canadensis, the Teleometacarpi represent the New World 



