Leptoreodon is an extinct genus of small Artiodactyla, of the family Protoceratidae, endemic to North America. It lived during the Late Eocene 40.4—37.2 Ma, existing for approximately . Leptoreodon resembled deer, but were more closely related to camelids.
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Leptoreodon is an extinct genus of small Artiodactyla, of the family Protoceratidae, endemic to North America. It lived during the Late Eocene 40.4—37.2 Ma, existing for approximately . Leptoreodon resembled deer, but were more closely related to camelids.
==Fossil distribution== Fossils have been recovered from: Devil's Graveyard Formation, Brewster County, Texas Webb County, Texas Swift Current Creek, Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).