The Fossil Record of Bovids (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Ruminantia: Pecora: Bovidae) in Greece

Kostopoulos, Dimitris S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68442-6_5

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“…The Late Miocene is a period of major bovid (Family Bovidae) diversity in Eurasia (Bibi et al, 2009). Dozens of genera and species have been described from China to Spain, including a great variety of cranial and horn core morphotypes (e.g., Agustí & Antón, 2002; Gentry et al, 1999; Kostopoulos, 2022; Zhang et al, 2002). Among them, there is a group of odd-looking medium- to large-sized taxa of varied horn core morphology, with a thickened basioccipital bearing accessory articular facets for the atlas, and other craniodental features that roughly recall those of extant muskox ( Ovibos moschatus Zimmermann, 1780), and its Pleistocene relatives, and for which the names Ovibovinae or Ovibovini have been used (Gil, 1872; Simpson 1945; but see Hassanin et al [2012] for an updated concept of Ovibovina).…”

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Late Miocene ‘οvibovin’ bovids (Mammalia, Bovidae) from Çorakyerler, Turkey

Kostopoulos

Erol

Mayda

2023

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

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Fossil 'ovibovin' bovids are described from the Upper Miocene of Çorakyerler (north-central Anatolia). Two taxa have been recognized: the predominant Criotherium argalioides, known by several craniodental remains, and the less common Hezhengia? cf. inundata, documented by a few dentitions. A review of C. argalioides records from Samos and Kemiklitepe D and a thorough comparison with the Çorakyerler sample provides new data on the morphological and metric variability of this taxon, as well as its chronological and geographic range. Hezhengia? cf. inundata from Çorakyerler reveals important similarities with the Garkin (Turkey) taxon, which, in contrast to previous studies, we find more similar to the Chinese Hezhengia than to the Chinese Plesiaddax as originally suggested. The same is true for "Plesiaddax" simplex from Kayadibi (Turkey), which is referred to as Hezhengia? simplex. The co-occurrence of two 'ovibovin' bovids of similar size in the same assemblage was previously suspected but never before documented. SUPPLEMENTARY FILES-Supplementary files are available for this article for free at www.tandfonline.com/UJVP.

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