The Occurrence and Phylogenetic Status of Merycodus from the Mohave Desert Tertiary

The collections of the University of California Museum of Paleontology contain a fairly representative assemblage of Merycodus skeletal elements from the Great Basin province. During the collecting seasons of 1925 and 1926, Miss Annie M. Alexander and Miss Louise Kellogg discovered in the Barstow and the Ricardo deposits of the Mohave Desert unusually complete series of limb bones associated with Merycodus skulls. The associated skeletal remains, with the numerous dissociated limb bones, cranial bones, and teeth from these and other localities, afford opportunity to observe the constancy of osteological characters within this group as well as a sound basis for morphological comparison with other genera of the Antilocapridae and Cervidae