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Oioceros Gaillard 1902

  • 1. University of Athens, Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology, Panepistimiopolis, 157 84 Athens (Greece) srousiak @ geol. uoa. gr.

Description

Genus Oioceros Gaillard, 1902

TYPE SPECIES. — Antilope rothii Wagner, 1857.

ADDITIONAL SPECIES. — O. atropatenes (Rodler & Weithofer, 1890).

DIAGNOSIS. — Small to medium sized antelopes; short face (M3 below the orbit), slightly bent in relation to the braincase; nasal bones widening posteriorly; prominent orbital rims; frontals between the horncores almost at the same level as the supraorbital margins; frontal depression between the posterior part of the nasals and the horn-core bases; supraorbital foramina close to the bases of the horn-cores; infraorbital foramen above P3; postcornual fossa present; horncores inserted above the posterior part of the orbits, with inverse torsion, and a main keel that starts from a postero-lateral position; horn-core axis almost straight in lateral view; anteroposterior and transverse diameter of the horn-cores that diminish gradually from the base upwards; braincase not shortened.

Notes

Published as part of Roussiakis, Socrates J., 2003, Oioceros rothii (Wagner, 1857) from the late Miocene of Pikermi (Greece): cranial and dental morphology, comparison with related forms, pp. 717-735 in Geodiversitas 25 (4) on page 719, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4650685

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Bovidae
Genus
Oioceros
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Artiodactyla
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gaillard
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Oioceros Gaillard, 1902 sec. Roussiakis, 2003

References

  • GAILLARD C. 1902. - Le belier de Mendes ou le mouton domestique de l'ancienne Egypte. Bulletin de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Lyon 20: 69 - 103.
  • WAGNER A. 1857. - Neue Beitrage zur Kenntniss der fossilen Saugthier-Ueberreste von Pikermi. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 8: 111 - 158.