Mesoreodon

Mesoreodon
Temporal range: Oligocene to early Miocene,
Reconstructed M. floridensis skeleton, Florida Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Merycoidodontidae
Subfamily: Merycoidodontinae
Genus: Mesoreodon
Scott, 1893
Type species
Mesoreodon chelonyx
Scott, 1893
Species
  • M. chelonyx Scott, 1893
  • M. floridensis MacFadden & Morgan, 2003
  • M. minor Douglass, 1903

Mesoreodon is an extinct genus of terrestrial herbivore of the family Merycoidodontidae, subfamily Merycoidodontinae (the oreodonts), endemic to North America during the Whitneyan stage of the Oligocene-Miocene epochs (33—20.6 mya) existing for approximately 12.4 million years.