''Antilocapra'' is a genus of the family

Antilocapridae The Antilocapridae are a family of ruminant artiodactyls endemic to North America. Their closest extant relatives are the giraffids. Only one species, the pronghorn (''Antilocapra americana''), is living today; all other members of the family ...

, which contains only a single living species, the

pronghorn The pronghorn (, ) (''Antilocapra americana'') is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed, hoofed) mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is known colloquially in North America as the American ante ...

''(Antilocapra americana)''. Another species, the Pacific pronghorn, lived in

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

during the

Late Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a Stratigraphy, stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division ...

and survived as recently as 12,000 BP. The name means "antelope-goat". ''Antilocapra'' is the only surviving genus of pronghorn, though three other genera (''

Capromeryx ''Capromeryx'' (dwarf pronghorn) is an extinct genus of dwarf pronghorns (Antilocapridae) that originated in North America during the Pliocene about 5 million years ago (the exact range of their presence on the landscape is still not known, but th ...

'', ''

Stockoceros ''Stockoceros'' is an extinct genus of the North American artiodactyl family Antilocapridae (pronghorns), known from what is now Mexico and the southwestern United States. The genus survived until about 12,000 years ago, and was present when Pale ...

'' and ''

Tetrameryx ''Tetrameryx'' is an extinct genus of the North American artiodactyl family Antilocapridae, known from Mexico, the western United States, and Saskatchewan in Canada. Taxonomy The name means "four ornedruminant", referring to the division of e ...

'') existed in

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...

up until the end of the Pleistocene.

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Mammal genera Mammal genera with one living species Pronghorns Taxa named by George Ord {{eventoedungulate-stub