. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. FROM THE SAMOS HIPPARION FAUNA 269 smaller. The complete premolar row would have been relatively longer than in Protragelaphus skouzesi, which in any case has larger teeth. M. 13007 is not small enough to belong to a gazelle or probably to Oioceros rothi (see discussion on p. 264), but it would be the right size for Sporadotragus parvidens. Other mandibles which I have tentatively assigned to 5. parvidens in my notes, BM(NH) , and ; AMNH 22778 and 86415, differ only in less or no development of goat folds, s
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. FROM THE SAMOS HIPPARION FAUNA 269 smaller. The complete premolar row would have been relatively longer than in Protragelaphus skouzesi, which in any case has larger teeth. M. 13007 is not small enough to belong to a gazelle or probably to Oioceros rothi (see discussion on p. 264), but it would be the right size for Sporadotragus parvidens. Other mandibles which I have tentatively assigned to 5. parvidens in my notes, BM(NH) , and ; AMNH 22778 and 86415, differ only in less or no development of goat folds, so M. 13007 cannot be definitely taken as Prostrepsiceros rotundicornis. My expectation would have been to find a smaller tooth row in this last species. The right Mi and M2 of an immature Samos antelope illustrated by Schlosser (1904, pi. 13 fig. 12), agree with Genus PROTRAGELAPHUS Dames 1883 Protragelaphus Dames : 97. Type species. Protragelaphus skouzesi Dames. Generic diagnosis. As for the species, which is the only one in the genus. Protragelaphus skouzesi Dames 1857 Antilope lindermayeri (in part) Wagner : 155, pi. 7 fig. 18. 1865 Palaeoreas lindermayeri (in part) Gaudry : 291, pi. 53 fig. 4. 1883 Protragelaphus skouzesi Dames : 97. 60 80 00 120 140 160. 5 Braincase length 6 Skull width across mastoids 7 Occipital height 8 Width ant tubs basioccipital 9 Width post. tubs, basioccipital 10 Length m! -Ml 11 Length p£-Pl Fig. 15. Percentage diagram for further skull measurements of spiral-horned antelopes. Explanation under Text-fig. 14. The braincase length was measured from the mid- frontals' suture at the level of the supraorbital pits to the occipital top. Standard deviations for Antilope cervicapra could not be shown on this diagram, and have been listed after Table 3 in the text, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations
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