Palaeoreas

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Palaeoreas
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus:† Palaeoreas
Gaudry, 1861
Species [1]
  • Palaeoreas lindermayeri Wagner, 1848
  • Palaeoreas sinensis Schlosser, 1903

Palaeoreas was a genus of Miocene bovid from Europe.

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Geographic range

Palaeoreas lindermayeri fossils have been found in Bulgaria [2] and Greece. [3]

Palaeoecology

Based on fossils from Pikermi and Samos, P. lindermayeri is believed to have had a browsing feeding style. [4] However, dental wear patterns on P. lindermayeri remains from northern Greece instead show it to have been a variable grazer or mixed feeder. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Palaeoreas in the Paleobiology Database
  2. ↑ Geraads, Denis; Spassov, Nikolaï; Kovachev, Dimitar (2003). "Palaeoreas lindermayeri (Wagner, 1848) (Mammalia, Bovidae) from the upper Miocene of Bulgaria, and a revision of the species". Geodiversitas. 25: 405. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  3. ↑ Kostopoulos, Dimitris S.; Soubise, Juliette (July–September 2018). "Palaeoreas, Majoreas, and Stryfnotherium gen. nov. (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Bovidae) from the Late Miocene of Greece" . Annales de Paléontologie . 104 (3): 231–247. Bibcode:2018AnPal.104..231K. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2018.04.002 . Retrieved 6 September 2024– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  4. ↑ Solounias, Nikos; Dawson-Saunders, Beth (June 1988). "Dietary adaptations and paleoecology of the Late Miocene ruminants from Pikermi and Samos in Greece" . Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . 65 (3–4): 149–172. Bibcode:1988PPP....65..149S. doi:10.1016/0031-0182(88)90021-1 . Retrieved 6 September 2024– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  5. ↑ Merceron, Gildas; de Bonis, Louis; Viriot, Laurent; Blondel, Cécile (25 February 2005). "Dental microwear of fossil bovids from northern Greece: paleoenvironmental conditions in the eastern Mediterranean during the Messinian" . Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . 217 (3–4): 173–185. Bibcode:2005PPP...217..173M. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.11.019 . Retrieved 7 September 2024– via Elsevier Science Direct.


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