Gazellospira

Extinct genus of mammals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gazellospira is an extinct genus of antelope that lived during the Miocene to Pleistocene in Europe and Asia.[1]

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Family:Bovidae
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Gazellospira
Gazellospira torticornis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Antilopinae
Genus: Gazellospira
Pilgrim and Schaub 1939
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Distribution

G. torticornis fossils are known from France,[2] Spain,[3] Italy,[4] Crimea,[5] Russia,[6] Romania,[7] Bulgaria,[8] Greece,[9][10] Turkey,[11] and Georgia.[6] G. tsaparangensis is known from the Pliocene of the Zanda Basin in Tibet.[12]

Palaeoecology

G. torticornis teeth from the Piacenzian site of Sésklo in Greece indicate that it was a mixed feeder that periodically grazed.[13]

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