Hemitragus bonali Temporal range: Mid - Late Pleistocene
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Reconstruction at Museum of Prehistory Tautavel | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Caprinae |
Tribe: | Caprini |
Genus: | Hemitragus |
Species: | †H. bonali
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Binomial name | |
†Hemitragus bonali |
Hemitragus bonali, the Bonal tahr, is an extinct species of bovid from the Pleistocene of Europe and the Caucasus Mountains region.[2]
The most recent remains of the Bonal tahr were found in layers dating from 298,000 ± 55,000 ka.[3] The Bonal tahr was closely related (and possibly ancestral to) another extinct European tahr species, Hemitragus cedrensis.[4]
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