Hemitragus bonali
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| Hemitragus bonali Temporal range: Mid - Late Pleistocene | |
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| Reconstruction at Museum of Prehistory Tautavel | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Caprinae |
| 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]
