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Caprinae (Bovidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Neogene of Mongolia

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Gobiocerus mongolicus Sokolov, 1952, Turcocerus kekemaidengensis Ye Jie et al., 1999; and Hypsodontus sp. were recorded in Miocene deposits of the Valley of Lakes (MN4-MN8) and Oioceros atropatenes (Rodler et Weithofer, 1890) occurred in the Mio-Pliocene (MN11-MN20) of northwestern Mongolia. Gobiocerus, Turcocerus, and Hypsodontus represent the same evolutionary lineage. Thus, Caprinae existed in Central Asia in the Early Miocene. They diverged from the Bovidae at the Oligocene-Miocene boundary. The presence of early bovids in this region suggests that this group could have appeared in Central Asia.

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Original Russian Text © E.L. Dmitrieva, 2007, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2007, No. 6, pp. 78–88.

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Dmitrieva, E.L. Caprinae (Bovidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Neogene of Mongolia. Paleontol. J. 41, 671–682 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030107060111

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