Een reconstructie van Caprovis savinii: Een antilope uit het Vroeg-Pleistoceen van Noordwest-Europa
Mol, D.; Tanis, K.; Bakker, R.; De Wilde, B. (2022). Een reconstructie van Caprovis savinii: Een antilope uit het Vroeg-Pleistoceen van Noordwest-Europa. Grondboor Hamer 76(5): 260-265
In: Grondboor en Hamer. Nederlandse Geologische Vereniging: Maastricht. ISSN 0017-4505, more
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- Mol, D., more
- Tanis, K.
- Bakker, R.
- De Wilde, B.
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| Abstract |
The holotype of the antelope, Caprovis savinii, is a right frontal bone with a heavily built horn core with a length of more than 19 cm that was found by the citizen scientist A. Savin from Cromer (Norfolk, United Kingdom). The site is the beach of Overstrand near Cromer. The age is Early Pleistocene. The description of this new species of antelope in 1882 is based on this discovery alone. In honor of Mr Savin, the species name savinii was chosen by Newton. More than a century later, some horncore fragments of Caprovis have been mentioned and described by Spencer (1970) and De Wilde (2006). Mol & Post (2007) attributed a second cervical vertebra, an epistropheus, to this extinct antelope. All specimen originate from a relatively small area of the coast of East Anglia and the adjacent deeper channels of the southern bight of the North Sea between England and the Netherlands. In September 2019, another frontal bone with an almost complete heavily built horn core of Caprovis savinii was trawled from the bottom of the North Sea. The fragment from the left side of the skull was shed by the crew of the beam trawler “Cornelis-Jannetje” (GO-23) with skipper Kees de Vogel south/southeast of the beacon Smiths Knoll. The unusual bycatch was donated to the second author (KT) and registered in his collection under number 5887. This new record of Savin’s antelope, Caprovis savinii, inspired us to model a reconstruction of the head of this extinct antelope from the Early Pleistocene. In this note we describe the new find and explain how we recreated the appearance of Savin’s antelope, Caprovis savinii. |
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