Nalameryx

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}} {{Automatic Taxobox | fossil_range = Middle Oligocene | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Nalameryx | authority = Métais ''et al.'', 2009 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *''N. savagei'' <small> Nanda & Sahni, 1990 (type)</small> *''N. sulaimani'' <small> Métais ''et al.'', 2009</small> | synonyms = ''Iberomeryx savagei'' }}

'''''Nalameryx''''' is an extinct genus of tragulid which lived in Chitarwata Formation, Pakistan during Middle Oligocene,<ref name="Métais2009">{{cite journal |author1=Grégoire Métais |author2=Jean-Loup Welcomme |author3=Stéphane Ducrocq |year=2009 |title=New Lophiomerycid Ruminants from the Oligocene of the Bugti Hills (Balochistan, Pakistan) |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=231–241 |doi=10.1671/039.029.0115 |bibcode=2009JVPal..29..231M |s2cid=129509229 |url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1671/039.029.0115|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and in Kargil Formation, India during Late Oligocene. It was first named by Grégoire Métais, Jean-Loup Welcomme and Stéphane Ducrocq in 2009 and the type species is ''Nalameryx savagei''.<ref name="Métais2009"/><ref name="Nanda1990">{{cite journal |author1=Nanda, A. C. |author2=A. Sahni |year=1990 |title=Oligocene vertebrates from the Ladakh Molasse Group, Ladakh Himalaya: palaeogeographic implications |journal=Journal of Himalayan Geology |volume=1 |pages=1–10 }}</ref> ''Nalameryx savagei'' is one of the rare mammals found during the Oligocene. Five dental remains composed the originally found material, described in 1990.<ref name="Nanda1990">{{cite journal |author1=Nanda, A. C. |author2=A. Sahni |year=1990 |title=Oligocene vertebrates from the Ladakh Molasse Group, Ladakh Himalaya: palaeogeographic implications |journal=Journal of Himalayan Geology |volume=1 |pages=1–10 }}</ref>

The first phylogenetic hypothesis proposed ''Nalameryx'' to be closely related to the basal ruminant Lophiomerycidae. The description of new specimens from the type bed K/7b from the Kargil Formation (late Oligocene, India), led to a reinterpretation of the phylogenetic position of ''Nalameryx'' and of the early evolutionary history of the Tragulidae. Based on the phylogenetic hypothesis, ''Nalameryx'' is nested within the living Tragulidae, making it one of the oldest known tragulid.<ref>Mennecart, B., Wazir, W.A., Sehgal, R.K., Patnaik, R., Singh, N.P., Kumar, N. and Nanda, A.C., 2021. New remains of Nalamaeryx (Tragulidae, Mammalia) from the Ladakh Himalaya and their phylogenetical and palaeoenvironmental implications. Historical Biology, pp.1-9.https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.2014479</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}}

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