Late Miocene 'ovibovin' bovids (Mammalia, Bovidae) from corakyerler, Turkey

Kostopoulos D. S., Sevim Erol A., Mayda S.

JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, cilt.43, sa.1, 2023 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 43 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/02724634.2023.2232850
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), BIOSIS, Geobase
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Fossil 'ovibovin' bovids are described from the Upper Miocene of corakyerler (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 corakyerler 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 corakyerler 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.