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NEUES JAHRBUCH FUR GEOLOGIE UND PALAONTOLOGIE-MONATSHEFTE, no.8, pp.477-489, 2002 (SCI-Expanded)
The Late Miocene Yatagan Formation near Mugla (Turkey) has yielded several specimens of the Bovid Sinotragus, a genus previously known only from Shanxi, China. Among Ungulates, the Rhino Chilotherium, the Giraffid Samotherium and the ovibovines of the Plesiaddax-Urmiatherium group had a similar geographic range. They are undoubtedly open country forms, which attest the extension of such an environment across the whole of Asia around 35degrees N in Late Miocene times. The discovery of Sinotragus in Turkey thus confirms an idea already put forward 50 years ago by B. KURTEN.