Ilingoceros
Extinct genus of mammals
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Ilingoceros is an extinct genus of pronghorn artiodactyl from the Late Miocene of North America.
| Ilingoceros Temporal range: Hemphillian | |
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| Reconstructed horn cores of I. alexandrae, American Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Antilocapridae |
| Tribe: | †Ilingoceratini |
| Genus: | †Ilingoceros Merriam, 1909 |
| Type species | |
| †Ilingoceros alexandrae | |
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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]
