Cosoryx

{{short description|Extinct species of mammals}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Miocene

| image = Merycodus furcatus fossil.jpg

| image_caption = C. furcatus mount

| taxon = Cosoryx

| authority = Leidy, 1869

| type_species = †Cosoryx furcatus

| type_species_authority = Leidy, 1869

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

  • C. cerroensis
  • C. furcatus
  • C. ilfonensis

}}

File:Merycodus osborni.jpg and Cosoryx]]

Cosoryx is an extinct genus of antilocaprid that lived in the Miocene of Nevada.{{cite journal |last=Matthew |first=W. D. |date=1904 |title=A Complete Skeleton of Merycodus |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/1513//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/bul/B020a07.pdf?sequence=1 |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=20 |pages=101–129 |access-date=2011-09-05 |archive-date=2012-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919040803/http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/1513//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/bul/B020a07.pdf?sequence=1 |url-status=dead }} Fossils of this genus have also been found in the Santa Fe Group in New Mexico.{{cite journal |last1=Galusha |first1=Ted |last2=Blick |first2=John C. |title=Stratigraphy of the Santa Fe Group, New Mexico |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |date=1971 |volume=144 |issue=1 |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/1633/B144a01.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=13 May 2020}}

Cosoryx has sometimes been considered synonymous with Merycodus.

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