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| The interrelationships of higher ruminant families : with special emphasis on the members of the Cervoidea. American Museum novitates ; no. 2893 |
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| Title: | The interrelationships of higher ruminant families : with special emphasis on the members of the Cervoidea. American Museum novitates ; no. 2893 |
| Other Titles: | Ruminant phylogeny |
| Authors: | Janis, Christine M. (Christine Marie), 1950- Scott, Kathleen M. (Kathleen Marie) |
| Issue Date: | 1987 |
| Publisher: | New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History |
| Series/Report no.: | American Museum novitates ; no. 2893 |
| Abstract: | "We analyze the interrelationships of the higher (Pecoran) ruminants, and suggest possible relationships between these families and the various genera of the polyphyletic assemblage 'Gelocidae.' We also review the developmental processes of the cranial appendages of the living horned ruminant families, and conclude that giraffid ossicones, bovid horns, and cervid antlers cannot be considered to be homologous with each other. The characters that have been used in the past and in this paper to distinguish pecoran families are discussed and evaluated. Within living pecoran families the Giraffidae are the most primitive, and the Moschidae and Antilocapridae are conjoined with the Cervidae in the superfamily Cervoidea, with antilocaprids being closer to cervids than are moschids. The Moschidae includes Moschus, the extinct European genera Dremotherium, Micromeryx, and Hispanomeryx, and the North American blastomerycids. The Cervoidea includes the primitive extinct Eurasian genera Eumeryx an... |
| Description: | 85 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-85). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5180 |
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