Gazellospira

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Gazellospira
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Gazellospira torticornis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Antilopinae
Genus:† Gazellospira
Pilgrim and Schaub 1939

Gazellospira is an extinct genus of antelope that lived during the Miocene to Pleistocene in Europe and Asia. [1]

Distribution

G. torticornis fossils are known from Crimea, [2] Romania, [3] and Greece. [4] G. tsaparangensis is known from the Pliocene of the Zanda Basin in Tibet. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Gazellospira Pilgrim & Schaub, 1938". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  2. ↑ Vislobokova, I. A.; Titov, V. V.; Lavrov, A. V.; Gimranov, D. O.; Startsev, D. B.; Tarasenko, K. K. (18 March 2020). "Early Pleistocene Spiral-Horned Antelopes (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) from the Taurida Cave (Crimea, Russia)". Paleontological Journal . 54 (1): 81–90. doi:10.1134/S0031030120010116. ISSN   0031-0301 . Retrieved 22 February 2025– via Springer Nature Link.
  3. ↑ Croitor, Roman; Robinson, Chris; Curran, Sabrina; Terhune, Claire; Drăgușin, Virgil; Pobiner, Briana; Popescu, Aurelian; Petculescu, Alexandru (3 March 2024). "Early pleistocene ruminants (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Dacian Basin (South Romania) before and after the Pachycrocuta event: implications for hominin dispersals in Western Eurasia". Historical Biology . 36 (3): 485–533. doi:10.1080/08912963.2023.2167602. ISSN   0891-2963 . Retrieved 22 February 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.
  4. ↑ Hermier, Roxane; Merceron, Gildas; Kostopoulos, Dimitris S. (1 August 2020). "The emblematic Eurasian Villafranchian antelope Gazellospira (Mammalia: Bovidae): New insights from the Lower Pleistocene Dafnero fossil sites (Northern Greece)". Geobios . 61: 11–29. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2020.06.006. ISSN   0016-6995 . Retrieved 22 February 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  5. ↑ Wang, Xiaoming; Li, Qiang; Tseng, Z. Jack (28 November 2023). "A new spiral-horned antelope, Gazellospira tsaparangensis sp. nov., from Pliocene Zanda Basin in Himalaya Mountain". Journal of Mammalian Evolution . 30 (4): 1067–1088. doi:10.1007/s10914-023-09692-2. ISSN   1064-7554 . Retrieved 24 February 2025– via Springer Nature Link.


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