Sinotragus (Bovidae, mammalia) from Turkey and the Late Miocene Middle Asiatic Province
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2002
Yazarlar: D GERAADS, E GULEC, Tümel Tanju KAYA
NEUES JAHRBUCH FUR GEOLOGIE UND PALAONTOLOGIE-MONATSHEFTE, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, 2002, ss 477-489
Özet
The Late Miocene Yatagan Formation near Mugla (Turkey) has yielded several specimens of the Bovid Sinotragus, a genus previously known only from Shanxi, China. Among Ungulates, the Rhino Chilotherium, the Giraffid Samotherium and the ovibovines of the Plesiaddax-Urmiatherium group had a similar geographic range. They are undoubtedly open country forms, which attest the extension of such an environment across the whole of Asia around 35degrees N in Late Miocene times. The discovery of Sinotragus in Turkey thus confirms an idea already put forward 50 years ago by B. KURTEN.