Blastomeryx. Two views of one mount in Peabody Museum, Yale. An U. Miocene hornless deer with canines allying it to the ancient pigs. Earliest of the Cervidae, possibly ancestral to the giraffes. The 2d and 3d toes fused, 1 and 4 present but functionless. 1 and 4 are absent entirely in living deer.
Compiled by Jesse Earl Hyde, various authors
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