Family Antilocapridae

The Antilocapridae family contains a single living species: the pronghorn. Fossil evidence of this family is limited to the Neartic ecozone. During the Pleistocene epoch, at least four species of pronghorn lived in central Mexico.

• Pronghorns are herbivorous, consuming both green and shrubby vegetation, depending on seasonality. Pronghorns do not exhibit true horns. Both males and females have keratinized sheaths that cover a bone core on the skull. Diverging from true horns, these sheaths are shed annually and exhibit a “prong” in the males.
• Pronghorns have two toes on each leg, covered by a keratinized hoof.

Note:  The species listed within this family only represent species for which the Hubbard Collection has specimens.  It does not represent all existing species within this family.