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Hemitragus bonali

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Hemitragus bonali
Temporal range: Mid - Late Pleistocene
Reconstruction at Museum of Prehistory Tautavel
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Tribe: Caprini
Genus: Hemitragus
Species:
H. bonali
Binomial name
Hemitragus bonali

Hemitragus bonali, the Bonal tahr, is an extinct species of bovid from the Pleistocene of Europe and the Caucasus Mountains region.[2]

The most recent remains of the Bonal tahr were found in layers dating from 298,000 ± 55,000 ka.[3] The Bonal tahr was closely related (and possibly ancestral to) another extinct European tahr species, Hemitragus cedrensis.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Harlé, É.; Stehlin, H. G. (1913). "Un Capridé quaternaire de la Dordogne, voisin du Thar actuel de l'Himalaya". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 4. 13 (1–2): 422–431.
  2. ^ Crégut, E.; Baryshnikov, G. (2005). New results on the Caprini (Bovidae, Caprinae) from Kudaro I and III (Georgia, Caucasus mountains). pp. 145–159 – via ResearchGate. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Moigne, A-M. (2016). "Bone retouchers from Lower Palaeolithic sites: Terra Amata, Orgnac 3, Cagny-l'Epinette and Cueva del Angel". Quaternary International. 409: 195–212. Bibcode:2016QuInt.409..195M. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.059.
  4. ^ Crégut-Bonnoure, E. (1989). "Un nouveau Caprinae, Hemitragus cedrensis nov. sp. (Mammalia, Bovidae) des niveaux pléistocènes moyen de la Grotte des Cèdres (le Plan d'Aups, Var). Intéret biogéograhique". Geobios. 22 (5): 653–664. Bibcode:1989Geobi..22..653C. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(89)80118-4.