Gazellospira

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Gazellospira
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Gazellospira torticornis
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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]

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Distribution

G. torticornis fossils are known from France, [2] Spain, [3] Italy, [4] Crimea, [5] Russia, [6] Romania, [7] Bulgaria, [8] Greece, [9] [10] Turkey, [11] and Georgia. [6] G. tsaparangensis is known from the Pliocene of the Zanda Basin in Tibet. [12]

Palaeoecology

G. torticornis teeth from the Piacenzian site of Sésklo in Greece indicate that it was a mixed feeder that periodically grazed. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "Gazellospira Pilgrim & Schaub, 1938". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  2. ↑ Heintz, Emile (1 January 1966). "La presence de Gazellospira torticornis Aymard (ruminant) dans le gisement villafranchien de Saint-Vallier (Drome); essai de repartition geographique et stratigraphique" . Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France . S7-VIII (1): 25–30. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.S7-VIII.1.25. ISSN   1777-5817 – via GeoScienceWorld.
  3. ↑ Arribas, Alfonso; Garrido, Guiomar; Viseras, César; Soria, Jesús M.; Pla, Sila; Solano, José G.; Garcés, Miguel; Beamud, Elisabet; Carrión, José S. (23 September 2009). Stepanova, Anna (ed.). "A Mammalian Lost World in Southwest Europe during the Late Pliocene". PLoS ONE . 4 (9) e7127. Bibcode:2009PLoSO...4.7127A. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007127 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   2745751 . PMID   19774089.
  4. ↑ Bellucci, Luca; Sardella, Raffaele (30 January 2015). "The last Antilopini bovids from the Early Pleistocene of Italy" . Quaternary International . 357: 245–252. Bibcode:2015QuInt.357..245B. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.11.024 . Retrieved 17 February 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  5. ↑ 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. Bibcode:2020PalJ...54...81V. doi:10.1134/S0031030120010116. ISSN   0031-0301 . Retrieved 22 February 2025– via Springer Nature Link.
  6. 1 2 Amirkhanov, H. A.; Ozherelyev, D. V.; Sablin, M. V.; Agadzhanyan, A. K. (22 February 2016). "Faunal remains from the Oldowan site of Muhkai II in the North Caucasus: Potential for dating and palaeolandscape reconstruction". Quaternary International . 395: 233–241. Bibcode:2016QuInt.395..233A. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.061 . Retrieved 10 September 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  7. ↑ 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. Bibcode:2024HBio...36..485C. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2023.2167602 . ISSN   0891-2963.
  8. ↑ Spassov, Nikolai; Crégut-Bonnoure, Evelyne (15 April 1999). "Premières données sur les Bovidae Villafranchiens de Bulgarie". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science (in French). 328 (7): 493–498. Bibcode:1999CRASE.328..493S. doi:10.1016/S1251-8050(99)80151-7 . Retrieved 10 September 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  9. ↑ Sianis, Panagiotis D.; Kostopoulos, Dimitris S.; Roussiakis, Socrates; Athanassiou, Athanassios; Iliopoulos, George (4 May 2023). "The bovids (Artiodactyla) from the Lower Pleistocene locality of Karnezeika (Southern Greece)" . Historical Biology . 35 (5): 661–677. Bibcode:2023HBio...35..661S. doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2060101. ISSN   0891-2963 . Retrieved 21 March 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.
  10. ↑ 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. Bibcode:2020Geobi..61...11H. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2020.06.006. ISSN   0016-6995 . Retrieved 22 February 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  11. ↑ Demirel, Fatma Arzu; Mayda, Serdar (2014). "A new Early Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Burdur Basin, SW Turkey". Russian Journal of Theriology. 13 (2): 55–63. doi:10.15298/rusjtheriol.13.2.01 . Retrieved 22 March 2025– via ResearchGate.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ Rivals, Florent; Athanassiou, Athanassios (31 July 2008). "Dietary adaptations in an ungulate community from the late Pliocene of Greece" . Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . 265 (1–2): 134–139. Bibcode:2008PPP...265..134R. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.05.001 . Retrieved 23 March 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.


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