Ilingoceros
| Ilingoceros Temporal range: Hemphillian
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| Reconstructed horn cores of I. alexandrae, American Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Antilocapridae |
| Tribe: | †Ilingoceratini |
| Genus: | †Ilingoceros Merriam, 1909 |
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| †Ilingoceros alexandrae | |
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Ilingoceros is an extinct genus of pronghorn artiodactyl from the Late Miocene of North America.
At 1.8 metres (5.9 ft) in body length, the animal would have been slightly bigger than the related modern pronghorn. It had straight, spiraled horns, which ended in forked tips.[1]
References
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- ^ Palmer, D., ed. (1999). The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. London: Marshall Editions. p. 280. ISBN 1-84028-152-9.
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