Hoplitomeryx
id:
hoplitomeryx-204-8917285
title:
Hoplitomeryx
text:
Hoplitomeryx is a genus of extinct deer-like ruminants which lived on the former Gargano Island during the Miocene and the Early Pliocene, now a peninsula on the east coast of South Italy. Hoplitomeryx, also known as "prongdeer", had five horns and sabre-like upper canines similar to a modern musk deer. Its fossilized remains were retrieved from the late 1960s onwards from reworked reddish, massive or crudely stratified silty-sandy clays, which partially fill the paleo-karstic fissures in the Me
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of deer
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplitomeryx
date created:
2007-05-29T12:20:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T22:35:48Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Hoplitomeryx_matthei_1.jpg","width":1840,"height":1152}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16