Soergelia

Extinct genus of mammals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Soergelia is a genus of extinct ovibovine caprine that was common across Europe, North America and Asia in the Pleistocene epoch.[2][3][4]

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Family:Bovidae
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Soergelia
Temporal range: Pleistocene
Soergelia mayfieldi. Holotype.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Tribe: Ovibovini
Genus: Soergelia
Schaub, 1951[1]
Type species
Soergelia elisabethae
Schaub, 1951
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Species include:

  • Soergelia brigittae Kostopolous, 1997[5]
  • Soergelia minor Moyà-Solà, 1987. Found in Italy.
  • Soergelia intermedia Crégut-Bonnoure & Dimitrijević, 2006. Found in Macedonia.[6]
  • Soergelia elisabethae Schaub, 1951[1]
  • Soergelia mayfieldi Troxell, 1915. Found in Texas.[7][8]
  • Soergelia longdanensis Bai & Wang, 2025 Found in China.[9]

Palaeoecology

δ13C, δ15N, and δ18O measurements from S. minor at the Early Pleistocene site of Venta Micena in southeastern Spain reveal it to have been a mixed feeder.[10]

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