Pecora

Pecora; Temporal range: Early Eocene - recent
	Pronghorn antelope
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Ruminantia
Infraorder:	Pecora; Flower, 1883
Subgroups
	†Gelocidae; †Hoplitomerycidae; †Leptomerycidae Giraffomorpha †Palaeomerycidae Giraffoidea Giraffidae; †Climacoceratidae; ; ; ; Cervoidea Cervidae; Moschidae; ; Bovoidea Antilocapridae; Bovidae; ; ;

Pecora is Ruminantia's infraorder Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value).. All pecorans, except the families Hydrotopes and Moschus have horns or antlers. "Pecora" comes from Latin meaning "horned lifestock". Some pecorans have horns, but the family Cervidae has antlers.

Pecora Media

Cladogram of Cetacea within Artiodactyla (Camelus bactrianus)
Recherches pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des mammifères (Pl. 80) (white background)
Tragulus napu - 1818-1842 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - (white background)
Walia ibex illustration white background
Voyage en Abyssinie Plate 2 (white background)
Bowhead-Whale1
Kantschil-drawing white background
Antilocapra white background
Giraffa camelopardalis Brockhaus white background
The deer of all lands (1898) Hangul white background

References

↑ Flower, W. On the Arrangement of the Orders and Families of Existing Mammalia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 178 -186. 1883.

[1] Flower, W. On the Arrangement of the Orders and Families of Existing Mammalia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 178 -186. 1883.

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