Biology:Capra dalii
| Capra dalii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Caprinae |
| Tribe: | Caprini |
| Genus: | Capra |
| Species: | †C. dalii
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| Binomial name | |
| †Capra dalii Bukhsianidze & Vekua, 2006
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Capra dalii is a fossil species of goat discovered in Georgia in 2006.[1] It is named for the Georgian goddess Dali, who was considered the guardian of hoofed animals such as ibexes and goats.[2][3] Fragments of C. dalii fossils were first located at the Dmanisi archaeological site, and are believed to be related to the west Caucasian tur, Capra caucasica.[1] The species is believed to have existed during the Early Pleistocene, around 1.76 million years ago, making it the oldest known example of the Capra genus.[4]
Based on the fossil fragments found, C. dalii is believed to have been a large Capra species, with horns that curved outward. Its teeth are similar to those of Hemitragus orientalis, another fossil species.[5]
Some of the C. dalii fossil fragments are held in the National History collection at the Dmanisi Museum-Reserve, part of the Georgian National Museum.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bukhsianidze & Vekua 2006, p. 159.
- ↑ Bukhsianidze & Vekua 2006, p. 160.
- ↑ Charachidzé 1993, p. 18.
- ↑ Bukhsianidze & Vekua 2006, p. 170.
- ↑ Van Der Made, Carlos Calero & Mancheño 2008, p. 20.
- ↑ "Capra dalii" (in en). http://museum.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=120&info_id=1336.
Bibliography
- Bukhsianidze, Maia; Vekua, Abesalom (2006-11-15). "Capra dalii nov. sp. (Caprinae, Bovidae, Mammalia) at the limit of Plio-Pleistocene from Dmanisi (Georgia)". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg: 159–171. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285918979.
- Charachidzé, Georges (1993-05-15). "The Religion and Myths of the Georgians of the Mountains". in Bonnefoy, Yves (in en). American, African, and Old European Mythologies. University of Chicago Press. pp. 254–262. ISBN 9780226064574. https://archive.org/details/americanafricano00bonn.
- Van Der Made, Jan; Carlos Calero, Juan Abel; Mancheño, Miguel Ángel (30 April 2008). "New material of the goat Capra? alba from the Lower Pleistocene of Quibas (Spain); notes on sexual dimorphism, stratigraphic distribution and systematics." (in en). Bollettino della Società paleontologica italiana (Società Paleontologica Italiana) 47 (1): 13–23. http://paleoitalia.org/media/u/archives/13_van_der_Made.pdf. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
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