Saiga prisca Nehring, 1891

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Moravia

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Lemoine, Rhys Taylor, Buitenwerf, Robert, Faurby, Sören and Svenning, Jens-Christian. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(7): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078 [Supporting Information: Data S1]

Ratajczak, Urszula et al. (2016). Quaternary skulls of the saiga antelope from Eastern Europe and Siberia: Saiga borealis versus Saiga tatarica — One species or two? Quaternary International 420: 329-347.

Vremir, Matei M. (2004). New approach on the Saiga antelopes (Saiga tatarica/borealis; Bovidae) from the Late Pleistocene and Holocene of Crimea (SE Ukraine). Studia universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Geologia XLIX(2): 105-108.

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