Syndyoceras
Sign in to saveSyndyoceras is a small extinct genus of Artiodactyla, of the family Protoceratidae, endemic to central North America from the Miocene epoch (23.1—18.5 Ma), existing for approximately .
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Syndyoceras is a small extinct genus of Artiodactyla, of the family Protoceratidae, endemic to central North America from the Miocene epoch (23.1—18.5 Ma), existing for approximately .
==Taxonomy== thumb|left|Restoration thumb|left|Restoration by Robert Bruce Horsfall Syndyoceras was named by Barbour (1905). Its type is Syndyoceras cooki. It was assigned to Protoceratidae by Barbour (1905) and Carroll (1988); and to Kyptoceratini by Webb (1981), Prothero (1998), Webb et al. (2003) and Prothero and Ludtke (2007).
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