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| image_caption = Male ''Micromeryx'' skeleton, Museum am Löwentor, Stuttgart, [[Germany]]
| image_caption = Male ''Micromeryx'' skeleton, Museum am Löwentor, Stuttgart, [[Germany]]
| taxon = Micromeryx
| taxon = Micromeryx
| authority = Lartet, 1851
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = ''M. flourensianus'' <small>Lartet 1851</small><br>''M. azanzae'' <small>Sánchez and Morales 2008</small><br>''M.''? ''eiselei'' <small>Aiglstorfer at al. 2017<ref>Manuela Aiglstorfer, Loïc Costeur, Bastien Mennecart, Elmar P. J. Heizmann: [http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185679 ''Micromeryx''? ''eiselei'' — A new moschid species from Steinheim am Albuch, Germany, and the first comprehensive description of moschid cranial material from the Miocene of Central Europe], in: PLOS One vom 16. Oktober 2017, [[DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185679]]</ref></small>
| subdivision = ''M. flourensianus'' <small>Lartet 1851</small><br>''M. azanzae'' <small>Sánchez and Morales 2008</small><br>''M.''? ''eiselei'' <small>Aiglstorfer at al. 2017<ref>Manuela Aiglstorfer, Loïc Costeur, Bastien Mennecart, Elmar P. J. Heizmann: [http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185679 ''Micromeryx''? ''eiselei'' — A new moschid species from Steinheim am Albuch, Germany, and the first comprehensive description of moschid cranial material from the Miocene of Central Europe], in: PLOS One vom 16. Oktober 2017, [[DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185679]]</ref></small>

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Micromeryx
Temporal range: Miocene
Male Micromeryx skeleton, Museum am Löwentor, Stuttgart, Germany
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Moschidae
Genus: Micromeryx
Lartet, 1851
Species

M. flourensianus Lartet 1851
M. azanzae Sánchez and Morales 2008
M.? eiselei Aiglstorfer at al. 2017[1]

Restoration of Micromeryx, male specimen

Micromeryx is an extinct genus of musk deer that lived in the Miocene.[2]

References

  1. ^ Manuela Aiglstorfer, Loïc Costeur, Bastien Mennecart, Elmar P. J. Heizmann: Micromeryx? eiselei — A new moschid species from Steinheim am Albuch, Germany, and the first comprehensive description of moschid cranial material from the Miocene of Central Europe, in: PLOS One vom 16. Oktober 2017, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185679
  2. ^ Sánchez, I. M.; Morales, J. (2008). "Micromeryx azanzae sp. nov. (Ruminantia: Moschidae) from the middle-upper Miocene of Spain, and the first description of the cranium of Micromeryx". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28 (3): 873. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[873:MASNRM]2.0.CO;2.