Parastrepsiceros

Parastrepsiceros Temporal range: Pliocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Genus:	† Parastrepsiceros Vekua, 1968 [1]

Parastrepsiceros is an extinct genus of Pliocene bovid from Eurasia.

Taxonomy

Some authors have suggested that Parastrepsiceros sokolovi is synonymous with and represents an early subspecies of Gazellospira torticornis. ^[2]

Distribution

Parastrepsiceros koufosi fossils are known from Greece. ^[3] P. sokolovi inhabited Georgia. ^[4]

References

1. "IRMNG taxon details Parastrepsiceros Vekua in Gabunia & Vekua, 1968 †". Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
2. 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 10 September 2024– via Elsevier Science Direct.
3. Kostopoulos, Dimitris S. (1 June 1998). "Parastrepsiceros koufosi n. sp.(Mammalia, Bovidae); note on the possible presence of a Prostrepsiceros descendant in the latest Pliocene of northern Greece" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 41 (1): 101–109. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
4. Agustí, J.; Vekua, A.; Oms, O.; Lordkipanidze, D.; Bukhsianidze, M.; Kiladze, G.; Rook, L. (December 2009). "The Pliocene-Pleistocene succession of Kvabebi (Georgia) and the background to the early human occupation of Southern Caucasus" . Quaternary Science Reviews . 28 (27–28): 3275–3280. Bibcode:2009QSRv...28.3275A. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.001 . Retrieved 6 September 2024– via Elsevier Science Direct.