Gazellospira

Gazellospira
Gazellospira torticornis
Scientific classification
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 France, ^[2] Italy, ^[3] Crimea, ^[4] Russia, ^[5] Romania, ^[6] Bulgaria, ^[7] Greece, ^{[8] [9]} Turkey, ^[10] and Georgia. ^[5] G. tsaparangensis is known from the Pliocene of the Zanda Basin in Tibet. ^[11]

Palaeoecology

G. torticornis teeth from the Piacenzian site of Sésklo in Greece indicate that it was a mixed feeder that periodically grazed. ^[12]

References

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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. Bellucci, Luca; Sardella, Raffaele (30 January 2015). "The last Antilopini bovids from the Early Pleistocene of Italy" . Quaternary International . 357: 245–252. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.11.024 . Retrieved 17 February 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
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5. 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. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.061 . Retrieved 10 September 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
6. 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.
7. 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. doi:10.1016/S1251-8050(99)80151-7 . Retrieved 10 September 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
8. 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. doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2060101. ISSN   0891-2963 . Retrieved 21 March 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.
9. 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.
10. 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. Retrieved 22 March 2025– via ResearchGate.
11. 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.
12. 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. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.05.001 . Retrieved 23 March 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.