Navahoceros fricki Schultz & Howard, 1935

Frick's mountain deer

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Rangifer fricki Schultz & Howard, 1935

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene?

Distribution

Americas

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Schultz, C. B., and E. B. Howard. 1935. The fauna of Burnet Cave, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 87:273-298.

Other references:

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Harris, Arthur H. (1993). Quaternary vertebrates of New Mexico, pp. 179-197. In: Vertebrate Paleontology in New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 2:i-vii, 1-338.

Hay, O. P. 1927. The Pleistocene of the western region of North America and its vertebrated animals. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication no. 322B, 346 pp + pls. I-XII.

Hockett, B., Dillingham, E., 2004. Paleontological Investigations at Mineral Hill Cave. Contributions to the Study of Cultural Resources Technical Report 18. U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, Reno.

Kottkamp, Scott et al. (2022). Pleistocene vertebrates from Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico. In: Morgan et al. (eds.). Late Cenozoic Vertebrate Paleontology: Tribute to Arthur H. Harris. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 88: 267-290.

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Morgan, G. S., and S. G. Lucas. 2003. Mammalian biochronology of Blancan and Irvingtonian (Pliocene and Early Pleistocene) faunas from New Mexico. American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin no. 279:269-320.

Morgan, G S., P. L. Sealey, and S. G. Lucas. 2011. Pliocene and early Pleistocene (Blancan) vertebrates from the Palomas Formation in the vicinity of Elephant Butte Lake and Caballo Lake, Sierra County, southwestern New Mexico. Pp. 664-736 in Fossil Record 3 (R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas, and J. A. Spielmann, eds.). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 53:1-736.

Schultz, C. B., L. D. Martin, and L. G. Tanner. 1970. Mammalian distribution in the Great Plains and adjacent areas from 14,000 to 9,000 years ago. AMQUA Abstract, 1st Meeting, 1970:119-120.

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Webb, S. David. (1992). A cranium of Navahoceros and its phylogenetic place among New World Cervidae. Annales Fennici Zoologici 28: 401-410.

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