Новая форма оленя из неогеновых отложений юга Украины

Abstract

In the quarry of the brick plant in the town of Ananiev (the Odessa region) the jemains of a fossil deer were found at a depth of 8—12 m under the sand layer. Its horns are restored and kept in the collection of the Paleontological museum of Odessa State University. They are characterized by a comparatively small sizes, spade-like broadened upper part of the stem, absence of the supraorbital and glacial processes, presence of tiltmedial process, located high above the burr in one plane with the horn stem and posterior process (but considerably lower than the latter). The above-mentioned peculiarities in the structure indicate its close relation to the group of gigantic deers on the one hand, and on the other — the primitiveness and belonging (taking into account the time of existence) to the new genus and species — Neomegaloceros gracilis gen et sp. п., the description of which is presented in the given article.