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Trigenicus

Taxonomy

Trigenicus was named by Douglass (1903) [treated as a synonym of Leptotragulus by Tabrum and Nichols 2001, but without discussion of Storer 1996]. It is not extant. Its type is Trigenicus socialis.

It was assigned to Protoceratidae by Douglass (1903) and Prothero (1998).

Species

T. profectus (syn. T. socialis)

Sister genera

Heteromeryx, Leptoreodon (syn. Camelomeryx, Merycodesmus), Leptotragulus (syn. Parameryx), Poabromylus, Pseudoprotoceras, Toromeryx

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Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1903	Trigenicus Douglass
1998	Trigenicus Prothero

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