Vault tales 214 – Clades – Ruminantia

Time to visit another clade, this time a true crown-group clade, the Ruminantia (or Ruminantiomorpha...if we include some of the anthracotherids that are a stem-group to the ruminantia). As a group, this is a fairly familiar one both as animals and as figures. The living groups include the bovids (cows, antelopes, goats, sheep, etc); the moschids (musk deer); the cervids (deer); the giraffids (giraffes and okapi); the antilocaprids (pronghorn) and the basal group the tragulina (chevrotains). Of course, there is…

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Vault tales 33 Ausini Chevrotain

Who makes it? Once again the Random Number Generator seems...less random. Like the Wild Boar from a weeks ago this is a figure from the Ausini wild animals set. Like the rest of the set, nothing is labelled or identified by the company. My best guess is chevrotain (mouse deer)--it's a pointy-nosed hoofed animal that appears to represent a small mammal, but no antlers (otherwise mutjac might have been considered). A tiny little artiodactyl figure. Canines aren't visible...maybe it's a…

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