Hemitragus bonali
| Hemitragus bonali Temporal range: Mid - Late Pleistocene
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| Reconstruction at Museum of Prehistory Tautavel | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Caprinae |
| 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]
Palaeobiology
Palaeoecology
Food web reconstruction derived from paired δ13C and δ18O measurements of the fauna of the fossil site of Payre in France indicates that the Bonal tahr was preyed on heavily by wolves in areas where wolves and Neanderthals coexisted and partitioned resources.[5]
References
- ^ Harlé, É.; Stehlin, H. G. (1913). "Un Capridé quaternaire de la Dordogne, voisin du Thar actuel de l'Himalaya". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 4. 13 (1–2): 422–431.
- ^ Crégut, E.; Baryshnikov, G. (2005). New results on the Caprini (Bovidae, Caprinae) from Kudaro I and III (Georgia, Caucasus mountains). pp. 145–159 – via ResearchGate.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Moigne, A-M. (2016). "Bone retouchers from Lower Palaeolithic sites: Terra Amata, Orgnac 3, Cagny-l'Epinette and Cueva del Angel". Quaternary International. 409: 195–212. Bibcode:2016QuInt.409..195M. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.059.
- ^ Crégut-Bonnoure, E. (1989). "Un nouveau Caprinae, Hemitragus cedrensis nov. sp. (Mammalia, Bovidae) des niveaux pléistocènes moyen de la Grotte des Cèdres (le Plan d'Aups, Var). Intéret biogéograhique". Geobios. 22 (5): 653–664. Bibcode:1989Geobi..22..653C. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(89)80118-4.
- ^ Ecker, Michaela; Bocherens, Hervé; Julien, Marie-Anne; Rivals, Florent; Raynal, Jean-Paul; Moncel, Marie-Hélène (October 2013). "Middle Pleistocene ecology and Neanderthal subsistence: Insights from stable isotope analyses in Payre (Ardèche, southeastern France)". Journal of Human Evolution. 65 (4): 363–373. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.06.013. Retrieved 18 March 2026 – via Elsevier Science Direct.