A new late Miocene bovid (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Bovidae) from Çorakyerler (Turkey)
| Autor: | Ayla Sevim Erol, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Serdar Mayda, Alper Yener Yavuz |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ege Üniversitesi |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
010506 paleontology Crania biology Horn (anatomy) Fauna Paleontology Bovidae Biostratigraphy Late Miocene biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Sinus (botany) QE701-760 Taxon [No Keyword] Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Fossil Record, Vol 24, Pp 9-18 (2021) Fossil Record 24(1): 9-18 |
| ISSN: | 2193-0074 2193-0066 |
| Popis: | We describe here five new bovid crania from the Çorakyerler fossil site (Tüglu Formation, Çankırı Basin, north-central Anatolia, Turkey), the fauna of which is dated by magneto- and biostratigraphy to the late Miocene, around the Vallesian–Turolian boundary. The material is assigned to a new bovid taxon of medium-to-large size, Gangraia anatolica gen. and sp. nov., characterized by horn cores that are long, keelless, compressed, obliquely inserted on the frontals, transversally ridged, moderately diverging from each other, slightly twisted homonymously, and sigmoidally curved in lateral view with long, fairly straight tips. The horn core features, along with the presence of a single large sinus occupying the pedicle and the base of the horn core, a strong cranial flexion, a short braincase, the presence of a distinct dorsal parietal boss, wide-apart temporal crests, and a widened anteriorly basioccipital, indicate a mixture of caprine-like and alcelaphine-like features that relate Gangraia anatolica gen. and sp. nov. to the Alcelaphini–Caprini–Hippotragini clade. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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