Surameryx
Name: Surameryx
(South ruminant).
Phonetic: Su-rah-meh-riks.
Named By: D. R. Prothero, K. E. Campbell,
B.L. Beatty & C.D. Frailey - 2014.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Artiodactyla, Ruminantia, Palaeomerycidae, Dromomerycinae.
Species: S. acrensis (type).
Diet: Herbviore.
Size: Unknown due to lack of fossil remains.
Known locations: Brazil - Madre de Dios
Formation.
Time period: Tortonian-Messinian of the Miocene.
Fossil representation: Left lower jaw.
Named in 2014, not much can be said about Surameryx because the genus has been named from just a lower left jaw. However, by being recovered from a late Miocene aged deposit, we do know that the presence of Surameryx in South America is a rare example of a mammal with North American ancestry appearing in South America before the Pliocene.
Further reading
- New late Miocene dromomerycine artiodactyl from Amazon Basin:
implications for interchange dynamics. Journal of Paleontology
88(3):434-443. - D. R. Prothero, K. E. Campbell,
B.L. Beatty & C.D. Frailey - 2014.
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