#Capromeryx

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Another (rough) #paleostream sketch

Capromeryx, a small pronghorn, resting between the antlers of a giant Cervalces.

[thegreenwolf]

I missed making paleoart Breyer customs, so have a pair of prehistoric pronghorns! I've transformed a Breyer pronghorn into Stockoceros, complete with new horns. Meanwhile, Breyer's Alpine goat has been extensively reworked into a Capromeryx. These two were incredibly fun to work on, and I love how they turned out! You can find them both at https://www.etsy.com/shop/thegreenwolf?section_id=23514524.

[o-craven-canto]

Fun fact: the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is the last surviving species of the family Antilocapridae, which a few million years ago where the dominant grazers of the North American plains much like antelopes (family Bovidae) in the African savannas

And they were very creative with horn shapes!

(Ilingoceros and Hayoceros, from the Macmillan illustrated encyclopedia of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals)

(Tetrameryx and Capromeryx, by Woodfux)

(Merriamoceros, by Nobu Tamura)

I start with P and end with ORN what am I?

PRONGHORN

[ask-palaeoblr]

How many species of tetrameryx, capromeryx and stockoceros were present in the late pleistocene?

[wapiti3]

pronghorn (Antilocapra americana)

The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is a species of artiodactyl mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is often known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope, prairie antelope, or simply antelope[4] because it closely resembles the true antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to parallel evolution.[5]

It is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae.[6] During the Pleistocene epoch, about 12 antilocaprid species existed in North America.[7] Three other genera (Capromeryx,[8][9] Stockoceros[10][11] and Tetrameryx[12]) existed when humans entered North America but are now extinct.

As a member of the superfamily Giraffoidea, the pronghorn's closest living relatives are the giraffes and okapi. The Giraffoidea are in turn members of the infraorder Pecora, making pronghorns more distant relatives of the Cervidae (deer) and Bovidae (cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes, and gazelles), among others.

source- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[synapsid-taxonomy]

Do we know anything how stockoceros, tetrameryx, and capomeryx differed from the pronghorn in food and habitat preferences?

The pronghorn is a browser and prefers open country, higher-altitude environments such as grasslands and desert. Analysis of wear on teeth of extinct antilocaprids compared to modern ungulates suggest Stockoceros and Tetrameryx were more mixed feeders, incorporating more grasses into their diet. Isotopes and mesowear suggest Capromeryx were also mixed feeders, and that they inhabited open forest (and potentially were more solitary than modern pronghorn). Stockoceros also seems to have preferred similar altitudes to modern pronghorn, unlike Capromeryx (which is more common in lower altitudes in at least some places, after Bravo-Cuevas et al. 2013).

[rabbitcruiser]

Pronghorns, Custer State Park

The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed, hoofed) mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is often known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope, prairie antelope, or simply antelope because it closely resembles the true antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to parallel evolution.

It is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae. During the Pleistocene epoch, about 12 antilocaprid species existed in North America.Three other genera (Capromeryx,Stockoceros and Tetrameryx) existed when humans entered North America but are now extinct.

As a member of the superfamily Giraffoidea, the pronghorn's closest living relatives are the giraffes and okapi. The Giraffoidea are in turn members of the infraorder Pecora, making pronghorns more distant relatives of the Cervidae (deer) and Bovidae (cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes, and gazelles), among others.

The pronghorn is the symbol of the American Society of Mammalogists.

Source: Wikipedia

[radicaldinosaurfan]

Do we have any known evidence of prehistoric Pronghorns?

We have evidence of several species, everyone’s convenience here’s the wikipedia category on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Prehistoric_pronghorns so you can read up on any you’d like! And here’s an image of a Capromeryx minor from the La Brea tar pits:

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[sciencetoastudent]

Recently found while cleaning bulk matrix from deposit 1 in the lab, this is a dentary of a juvenile dwarf pronghorn, Capromeryx minor.  It is probably the youngest pronghorn individual represented in our cataloged collection.

[glaucophane]

The word "small" here is doing a lot of heavy lifting. These guys were tiny. We're talking about an animal that comes up to about knee-height.

Imagine a dik-dik, but a dik-dik that's more closely related to giraffes than to other artiodactyls. That's Capromeryx.

Another (rough) #paleostream sketch

Capromeryx, a small pronghorn, resting between the antlers of a giant Cervalces.

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

It's true, here you have Capromeryx next to a Californian turkey, which was just a tiny bit larger than the modern turkey. Both have been found in the La Brea tar pits.

Another (rough) #paleostream sketch

Capromeryx, a small pronghorn, resting between the antlers of a giant Cervalces.