The First Finding of the Genus <i>Megalovis</i> (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) in the Lower Pleistocene of the Taurida Cave in the Crimea
I. A. Vislobokova
Abstract:The presence of Megalovis latifrons Schaub, 1923 is discovered in the composition of the Early Pleistocene fauna (1.8–1.5 Ma) of Taurida Cave in the Crimea. A fragment of the frontal bone with a part of the horn core, the incomplete upper and lower jaws, the metacarpus and metatarsus of M. latifrons are described. This large fossil representative of Ovibovini has been known only by the very rare finds from the Lower Pleistocene of the south of Western and Central Europe. Megalovis inhabited Eurasia in the late… Show more
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