''Gazella praegaudryi'' was a prehistoric, little known
gazelle species that lived in
Africa. It was small, and lived during the
Pleistocene. It had little compressed horn cores and no forward turning
metaconid
Many different terms have been proposed for features of the tooth crown in mammals.
The structures within the molars receive different names according to their position and morphology. This nomenclature was developed by Henry Fairfield Osborn ...
of its P4. Fossils have been excavated from formations such as at
Fort Ternan,
Lothagam
Lothagam is a geological formation located in Kenya, near the southwestern shores of Lake Turkana, from Kanapoi. It is located between the Kerio and Lomunyenkuparet Rivers on an uplifted fault block. Lothagam has deposits dating to the Miocene-P ...
, and Namulungle.
[Lars Werdelin, William Joseph Sanders, 2010, Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, p.764, Univ of California Press]
References
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Prehistoric bovids
Pleistocene mammals of Africa
praegaudryi