Simatherium
Appearance
Simatherium Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Bovinae |
Genus: | †Simatherium Dietrich, 1941 |
Simatherium is an extinct genus of bovid that inhabited Africa during the Neogene period.
Palaeoecology
[edit]Based on dental microwear texture analysis of bovids from the Varswater Formation of South Africa, S. demissum was a mixed feeder.[1] A mesowear texture analysis of S. demissum fossils from the same formation found it to be a grazer.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Ungar, Peter S.; Merceron, Gildas; Scott, Robert S. (24 September 2007). "Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Varswater Bovids and Early Pliocene Paleoenvironments of Langebaanweg, Western Cape Province, South Africa". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 14 (3): 163–181. doi:10.1007/s10914-007-9050-x. ISSN 1064-7554. Retrieved 28 September 2024 – via Springer Link.
- ^ Stynder, Deano D. (Winter 2011). "Fossil bovid diets indicate a scarcity of grass in the Langebaanweg E Quarry (South Africa) late Miocene/early Pliocene environment". Paleobiology. 37 (1): 126–139. doi:10.1666/09074.1. ISSN 0094-8373. Retrieved 28 September 2024 – via Cambridge Core.