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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Category:Prehistoric pronghorns
Category:Miocene mammals of North America
Category:Prehistoric Artiodactyla genera
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1869
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