Demecquenemia, Kostopoulos & Bernor, 2011

Kostopoulos, Dimitrios S. & Bernor, Raymond L., 2011, The Maragheh bovids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): systematic revision and biostratigraphiczoogeographic interpretation, Geodiversitas 33 (4), pp. 649-708 : 658

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scientific name	Demecquenemia
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Genus Demecquenemia n. gen.

TYPE SPECIES. — Demecquenemia rodleri ( Pilgrim & Hopwood, 1928) n. comb.

ETYMOLOGY. — Dedicated to R. de Mecquenem, one of the Maragheh pioneers.

DIAGNOSIS. — As for the single known species.

TAXONOMIC OVERVIEW

Rodler & Weithofer (1890) described a frontlet from Maragheh (NHMW A4898) as a new species, Gazella capricornis , to which Mecquenem (1925) assigned later several specimens from the same area, now in MNHN.F. Pilgrim & Hopwood (1928) were the first authors to point out that “ Gazella capricornis ” from Maragheh is a different species from Gazella capricornis from Pikermi, and proposed referring the Maragheh bovid to a new species, Gazella rodleri . Pilgrim (1939) suggested affiliations of G. rodleri with Oioceros Gaillard, 1902 , an idea rejected by Gentry (1970) but adopted by Solounias (1981). Korotkevich (1976) ascribed to this species a rich sample from Belka ( Ukraine) and she assigned it to a new subgenus Procapra (Vetaprocapra) rodleri , the type species of which is Antilope capricornis Wagner, 1848 . Bernor (1978) refers to the species as Gazella rodleri but Bouvrain (1996) explicitly excluded it from Gazella . Gentry & Heizman (1996) challenged once again its generic attribution and provisionally allocated it to Hispanodorcas Thomas, Morales & Heintz, 1982 .

References

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RODLER A. & WEITHOFER K. A. 1890. - Die Wiederkauer der Fauna von Maragha. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 57: 753 - 771.

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THOMAS H., MORALES J. & HEINTZ E. 1982. - Un nouveau bovide (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) Hispanodorcas torrubiae n. g., n. sp., dans le Miocene superieur d'Espagne. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 4 e ser., section C (3 - 4): 209 - 222.

WAGNER A. 1848. - Urweltliche Saugethier-Uberreste aus Griechenland. Abhandlugen der bayerischen Akademie derWissenschaften Mathematisch naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 5: 333 - 378.