Archaeomeryx Explained

Archaeomeryx is an extinct genus of ruminant that lived early in the Eocene.[1] [2] [3] It is believed to be close to the ancestry of the group Pecora, which includes deer, giraffes, cows and their relatives. Unlike the modern members of this group, it had a set of functioning incisors in the upper jaw.[4] It was small in size, comparable to a modern-day mouse deer.[5] It was also very rabbit-like and had several distinctive characteristics.[6] It lived in present-day China 35 to 40 million years ago.[7]

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  2. Web site: Nature.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20110525145050/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6691/extref/394364a0.appendix1.html . 2011-05-25 . live. .
  3. Book: The Beginning of the Age of Mammals - Google Book Search. https://web.archive.org/web/20121022232041/http://books.google.ca/books?id=3bs0D5ix4VAC&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=Archaeomeryx&source=web&ots=I0ren6cU4g&sig=7OwC0maYpgx8jhcAgl_AU9KB0b8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result. live. 2012-10-22. 9780801884726. Rose. Kenneth D.. 2006-09-26. JHU Press . .
  4. News: Toothless cud chewers, To see ourselves as others see us... - USATODAY.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20090108041428/http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/aprilholladay/2006-09-05-cows-mirrors_x.htm. 2009-01-08 . live. USA Today . 2006-09-05 . 2010-04-25. .
  5. Web site: Browse - Encyclopédie Universalis. https://web.archive.org/web/20110429192713/http://www.universalis.fr/eb/a/a63.html. dead. 2011-04-29. .
  6. Web site: Title. 2008-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20090119054040/http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional/part2c.html. 19 January 2009 . live.
  7. News: New York Times. 2008-12-14 . Michael . Brenson . 1988-09-02.

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