ON THE ORIGINS OF THE FAMILY BOVIDAE (ART IODACTYLA, MAMMALIA)

Authors
MORALES J SORIA D PICKFORD M
Citation
J. Morales et al., ON THE ORIGINS OF THE FAMILY BOVIDAE (ART IODACTYLA, MAMMALIA), Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes, 321(12), 1995, pp. 1211-1217
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes → ACNP
ISSN journal
12518050
Volume
321
Issue
12
Year of publication
1995
Pages
1211 - 1217
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8050(1995)321:12<1211:OTOOTF>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
The discovery of a small bovid species, Namibiomeryx senuti nov. gen., nov. sp., in the lower Miocene of Elisabethfeld, Namibia, represents the earliest known record of this family. Even though the Elisabethfel d species is devoid of horns, it possesses characteristic bovid dental and post-cranial morphology which in turn suggests that the family or iginated in Africa soon after the first ruminants colonized the contin ent during the Lower Miocene.