Late Miocene 'ovibovin' bovids (Mammalia, Bovidae) from corakyerler, Turkey
JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, vol.43, no.1, 2023 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 43 Issue: 1
- Publication Date: 2023
- Doi Number: 10.1080/02724634.2023.2232850
- Journal Name: JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), BIOSIS, Geobase
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- Ankara University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
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.