Taxonomy
Palaeomerycidae was named by Lydekker (1883). Its type is Palaeomeryx. It was assigned to Artiodactyla by Hulbert and Whitmore (2006); and to Cervoidea by Carroll (1988), Sach and Heizmann (2001) and Prothero and Liter (2007).
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