Merriamoceros is an extinct genus of pronghorn. It is known from a single species, which is also the type species, M. coronatus.
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Merriamoceros is an extinct genus of pronghorn. It is known from a single species, which is also the type species, M. coronatus.
==Discovery and naming== thumb|left|The Barstow Formation in which Merriamoceros was discovered The type specimen (UCMP 20052) that defines this species is named Merriamoceros coronatus taking after its discoverer, J.M. Merriam. It is known from a partial skull (a single fragmentary horn or antler). Remains of Merriamoceros were found in rock formations dating to the Early Miocene period, 15.9 to 13.6 million years ago. Its type locality is Barstow, which is in a Barstovian terrestrial horizon in the Barstow Formation of California.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).