Procapreolus SCHLOSSER, 1924

Tesakov, Alexey S., Titov, Vadim V., Simakova, Alexandra N., Frolov, Pavel D., Syromyatnikova, Elena V., Kurshakov, Sergey V., Volkova, Natalia V., Trikhunkov, Yaroslav I., Sotnikova, Marina V., Kruskop, Sergey V., Zelenkov, Nikita V., Tesakova, Ekaterina M. & Palatov, Dmitry M., 2017, Late Miocene (Early Turolian) Vertebrate Faunas And Associated Biotic Record Of The Northern Caucasus: Geology, Taxonomy, Palaeoenvironment, Biochronology, Fossil Imprint 73 (3 - 4), pp. 383-444 : 414

Genus Procapreolus SCHLOSSER, 1924

Procapreolus sp.

C o m m e n t s. Remains of medium-sized deer are represented in the Gaverdovsky fauna (bed 7) by bones of an incomplete forelimb of a single individual, and an isolated premolar and fragments of molars. The morphology of the bones of the extremities is similar to that of the modern roe deer. The dimensions of the teeth coincide with that of the genus Procapreolus . The lack of diagnostic remains precludes a precise species definition. Procapreolus was common in Late Miocene faunas of Europe from the late Vallesian to Ruscinian ( Korotkevich 1970, Valli 2010).