Nalameryx

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| fossil_range = Middle Oligocene

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| taxon = Nalameryx

| authority = Métais et al., 2009

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• N. savagei Nanda & Sahni, 1990 (type)
• N. sulaimani Métais et al., 2009

| synonyms =

Iberomeryx savagei

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Nalameryx is an extinct genus of tragulid which existed in lower Chitarwata Formation, Pakistan during the middle Oligocene.{{cite journal |author1=Grégoire Métais |author2=Jean-Loup Welcomme |author3=Stéphane Ducrocq |year=2009 |title=New Lophiomerycid Ruminants from the Oligocene of the Bugti Hills (Balochistan, Pakistan) |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=231–241 |doi=10.1671/039.029.0115 |bibcode=2009JVPal..29..231M |s2cid=129509229 |url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1671/039.029.0115|url-access=subscription }} It was first named by Grégoire Métais, Jean-Loup Welcomme and Stéphane Ducrocq in 2009 and the type species is Nalameryx savagei.{{cite journal |author1=Nanda, A. C. |author2=A. Sahni |year=1990 |title=Oligocene vertebrates from the Ladakh Molasse Group, Ladakh Himalaya: palaeogeographic implications |journal=Journal of Himalayan Geology |volume=1 |pages=1–10 }}

Nalameryx savagei is one of the rare mammals found during the Oligocene. Five dental remains

composed the originally found material, described in 1990.{{cite journal |author1=Nanda, A. C. |author2=A. Sahni |year=1990 |title=Oligocene vertebrates from the Ladakh Molasse Group, Ladakh Himalaya: palaeogeographic implications |journal=Journal of Himalayan Geology |volume=1 |pages=1–10 }}

The first phylogenetic hypothesis proposed

Nalameryx to be closely related to the basal ruminant Lophiomerycidae. The description of new specimens from the type bed K/7b from the Kargil Formation (late Oligocene, India), led to a reinterpretation of the phylogenetic position of Nalameryx and of the early evolutionary history of the Tragulidae. Based on the phylogenetic hypothesis, Nalameryx is nested within the living Tragulidae, making it one of the oldest known

tragulid.Mennecart, B., Wazir, W.A., Sehgal, R.K., Patnaik, R., Singh, N.P., Kumar, N. and Nanda, A.C., 2021. New remains of Nalamaeryx (Tragulidae, Mammalia) from the Ladakh Himalaya and their phylogenetical and palaeoenvironmental implications. Historical Biology, pp.1-9.https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.2014479