Gazella praegaudryi

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Gazella praegaudryi
Temporal range: Pleistocene
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Antilopinae
Tribe: Antilopini
Genus: Gazella
Species:
G. praegaudryi
Binomial name
Gazella praegaudryi
Arambourg, 1959

Gazella praegaudryi was a prehistoric, little known gazelle species that lived in Africa. It was small, and lived during the Pleistocene. It had little compressed horn cores and no forward turning metaconid of its P4. [1] Fossils have been excavated from formations such as at Fort Ternan, Lothagam, and Namulungle. [2]

References[]

  1. ^ George A. Bubenik, Anthony B. Bubenik, 2012, Horns, Pronghorns, and Antlers: Evolution, Morphology, Physiology, and Social Significance, p.207, Springer Science & Business Media
  2. ^ Lars Werdelin, William Joseph Sanders, 2010, Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, p.764, Univ of California Press
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