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Prostrepsiceros

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Prostrepsiceros
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Prostrepsiceros
Major, 1891

Prostrepsiceros was a genus of bovid from the Miocene epoch.

Geographic range

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P. rotundicornis is known from fossils from Greece[1] and Turkey.[2] P. vallesiensis is known from Greece.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Roussiakis, Socrates J. (1 October 2009). "Prostrepsiceros and Protragelaphus (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene locality of Chomateri (Attica, Greece)". Annales de Paléontologie. 95 (4): 181–195. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2009.09.002. ISSN 0753-3969 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
  2. ^ Kostopoulos, Dimitris S. (2005). "The Bovidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the late Miocene of Akkașdağı, Turkey". Geodiversitas. 27 (4): 747–791. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  3. ^ Kostopoulos, Dimitris S. (1 December 2009). "Contribution to the systematics and phylogeny of Prostrepsiceros vallesiensis Bouvrain, 1982 (Mammalia, Bovidae)". Geodiversitas. 31 (4): 879–891. doi:10.5252/g2009n4a879. ISSN 1280-9659. Retrieved 6 September 2024 – via BioOne Digital Library.