Skoufotragus zemalisorum Kostopoulos 2009 (antelope)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae

Derivatio nominis: Dedicated to Konstantinos and Maria Zemalis, founders of the Aegean Museum of Natural History, Samos.

Full reference: D. S. Kostopoulos. 2009. The Late Miocene Mammal Faunas of the Mytilinii Basin, Samos Island, Greece: New Collection 14. Bovidae. Beitrage fur Paläontologie 31:345-389

Belongs to Skoufotragus according to D. S. Kostopoulos 2009

Sister taxa: Skoufotragus laticeps, Skoufotragus schlosseri

Type specimen: MYT1, a partial skull. Its type locality is Mytilinii-3, which is in a Turolian terrestrial sandstone in the Mytilinii Formation of Greece.

Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution: found only at Mytilinii-3

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