Tragulina

Tragulina is an infraorder of even-toed ungulates. Only the chevrotains survive to the present, including the genera Tragulus (the mouse deer) and Hyemoschus.

Tragulina Temporal range: Early Eocene–Holocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Greater Mouse-deer (Tragulus napu)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Ruminantia
Infraorder:	Tragulina Flower, 1883[1]
Families
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Taxonomy

Leptomeryx

The following is the taxonomy of the group Tragulina.[2]

• Infrarorder TRAGULINA
  • †Praetragulidae
    • Praetragulus
    • Parvitragulus
    • Simimeryx
  • †Archaeomerycidae
    • Archaeomeryx
    • Miomeryx
    • Paukkaungmeryx
  • †Gelocidae
    • Phaneromeryx
    • Paragelocus
    • Paragelocus
    • Gelocus
    • Pseudogelocus
    • Prodremotherium
    • Cryptomeryx
    • Pseudoceras
    • Gobiomeryx
    • Rutitherium
    • Eumeryx
  • †Hypertragulidae [3]
    • Hypertragulus
    • Nanotragulus
    • Hypisodontinae
      • Hypisodus
  • †Leptomerycidae
    • Hendryomeryx
    • Leptomeryx
    • Xinjiangmeryx
    • Pseudomeryx
    • Pseudoparablastomeryx
    • Pronodens
  • †Lophiomerycidae
    • Zhailimeryx
    • Iberomeryx
    • Lophiomeryx
    • Nalameryx[4]
    • Krabimeryx
    • undescrsibed
  • Tragulidae – chevrotains or mouse-deer
    • Tragulus
    • Hyemoschus
    • Moschiola
    • †Stenomeryx
  • †Protoceratidae[5]
    • Heteromeryx
    • Leptoreodon
    • Leptotragulus
    • Poabromylus
    • Toromeryx
    • Trigenicus
    • Paratoceras
    • Protoceras
    • Pseudoprotoceras
    • Kyptoceras
    • Lambdoceras
    • Prosynthetoceras
    • Synthetoceras
    • Syndyoceras

References

1. "The Paleobiology Database". Retrieved May 9, 2010.
2. "WikiLingue". Retrieved May 11, 2010.
3. Vislobokova, I. A. (2001). Evolution and classification of Tragulina (Ruminantia, Artiodactyla). Paleontological Journal, 35(January 2001), S69–S145.
4. Grégoire Métais, Jean-Loup Welcomme, and Stéphane Ducrocq (2009). "New Lophiomerycid Ruminants from the Oligocene of the Bugti Hills (Balochistan, Pakistan)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (1): 231–241. doi:10.1671/039.029.0115.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
5. "Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) among mammals: increased taxon sampling alters interpretations of key fossils and character evolution". PLoS ONE. 4 (9): e7062. 2009. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007062. PMC 2740860. PMID 19774069.