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Occurrence of the Indian genus Hemibos (Bovini, Bovidae, Mammalia) at the Early–Middle Pleistocene transition in Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Bienvenido Martı́nez-Navarro  and
Maria Rita Palombo
Bienvenido Martı́nez-Navarro*
Affiliation:
ICREA, Grup d'Autoecologia Humana, Àrea de Prehistòria, Un. Ass. CSIC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Plaça Imperial Tarraco 1, 43005 Tarragon, Spain
Maria Rita Palombo
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Roma “La Sapienza,” and CNR Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
*
*Corresponding author.E-mail address:bmarnav@prehistoria.urv.es (B. Martĺnez-Navarro).
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Abstract

The morphology of the horn-core structure and section shape of the Bos galerianus type specimen, as well as the general anatomy of the frontal and occipital areas of the skull, suggest that the skull is better attributed to the Indian genus Hemibos. This finding contributes to our understanding of faunal dispersal patterns into Europe at the Early–Middle Pleistocene transition.

Keywords

Early–Middle Pleistocene transitionEuropeIndian Fauna
Type
Research Article
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Quaternary Research , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , May 2004 , pp. 314 - 317
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University of Washington

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