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{{short description|Extinct species of mammals}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = [[Miocene]]
| image = Merycodus furcatus fossil.jpg
| image_caption = ''C. furcatus'' mount
| taxon = Cosoryx
| authority = [[Joseph Leidy|Leidy]], 1869
| type_species = †'''''Cosoryx furcatus'''''
| type_species_authority = [[Joseph Leidy|Leidy]], 1869
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
*''C. cerroensis''
*''C. furcatus''
*''C. ilfonensis''
}}
[[File:Merycodus osborni.jpg|thumb|left|Restoration of ''[[Ramoceros]]'' and ''Cosoryx'']]
'''''Cosoryx''''' is an [[extinct]] genus of [[Antilocapridae|antilocaprid]] that lived in the [[Miocene]] of [[Nevada]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Matthew |first=W. D. |date=1904 |title=A Complete Skeleton of Merycodus |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/1513//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/bul/B020a07.pdf?sequence=1 |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=20 |pages=101–129 |access-date=2011-09-05 |archive-date=2012-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919040803/http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/1513//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/bul/B020a07.pdf?sequence=1 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Fossils]] of this [[genus]] have also been found in the [[Santa Fe Group (geology)|Santa Fe Group]] in [[New Mexico]].<ref name="galusha-blick-1971">{{cite journal |last1=Galusha |first1=Ted |last2=Blick |first2=John C. |title=Stratigraphy of the Santa Fe Group, New Mexico |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |date=1971 |volume=144 |issue=1 |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/1633/B144a01.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=13 May 2020}}</ref>
''Cosoryx'' has sometimes been considered synonymous with ''[[Merycodus]]''.
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[[Category:Miocene Artiodactyla]]
[[Category:Miocene mammals of North America]]
[[Category:Prehistoric Artiodactyla genera]]
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