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''Amphitragulus'' is an extinct
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
Artiodactyla Artiodactyls are placental mammals belonging to the order (biology), order Artiodactyla ( , ). Typically, they are ungulates which bear weight equally on two (an even number) of their five toes (the third and fourth, often in the form of a hoof ...
, endemic to
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during the early Miocene. It has been found in
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(
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), Ronheim (Germany),
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(
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),
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and
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and range from 33 - 15.97 million years old.S. G. Lucas, E. G. Kordikova, and R. J. Emry. 1998. Oligocene stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, and mammalian biochronology north of the Aral Sea, Western Kazakhstan. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 34:313-348


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{{Taxonbar, from=Q3614667 Palaeomerycidae Miocene Artiodactyla Neogene animals of Europe Prehistoric Artiodactyla genera