Dorcatherium

Dorcatherium; Temporal range: Miocene,
	Dorcatherium naui skeleton, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Tragulidae
Genus:	†Dorcatherium; Johann Jakob Kaup, 1833
Type species
	†Dorcatherium naui; Kaup & Scholl, 1834
Other species
	†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 ;

Dorcatherium is an extinct genus of tragulid ruminant which existed in Europe, East Africa and the Siwaliks during the Miocene.[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.

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