Pediomeryx/Yumaceras

Here's a not-well-known old critter.  It's not clear if Yumaceras is the same as Pediomeryx.  Whatever the case, this was the largest of a group of antelope-like things called the Cranioceratini, of which Cranioceras itself is the best known.  The latest members of this group all had these three horns, two over the eyes and one from the back of the skull.  Apparently they were covered with skin and hair, like the 'horns' of a giraffe.  Here I portray the tips as having been rubbed smooth from lots of fights.  The points of these horns were not sharp, so they wouldn't have been very good at stabbing.  Cranioceratines were members of the Paleomerycidae, a group that 'experimented' with weird horn shapes and arrangements.  Pediomeryx/Yumaceras lived in North America from about 9 to about 5 million years ago, and were the last members of this strange family.  I haven't yet seen bones from the rest of the body of these so I reconstruct only the head.  Perhaps, from what I've read, they were fairly short and heavy-limbed compared to modern antelopes.  They were quite large, about the size of a red deer.  Pencil, coloured with Photoshop.