REMARKS ON THE OIOCEROS SPECIES (BOVIDAE, ARTIODACTYLA, MAMMALIA) FROM THE NEOGENE OF CHINA

The genus Oioceros was created by C. Gaillard (1902) based on the species Antilope rothii Wagner, 1857 from the Turolian of Pikermi, Greece. Its diagnosis is that 'Bovidae of small size with long slender muzzle; face bent down on basicranial axis either slightly or to a moderate extent; orbits with expanded orbital roof; horn-cores twisted counter-clockwise in a fairly close spiral of one or two revolutions, widely separate, tilted backward or fairly upright, divergent, with a cross-section almost circular or elliptical, keeled either anteriorly or posteriorly or both; dentition moderately hypsodont, premolar series rather long and slender, molars broad with ribs of medium strength.' (after Pilgrim and Hopwood, 1924, p. 24). Up to now, it has included approximately seventeen species from the Neogene of the Old World (twelve species in Asia, four in Europe and one in Africa).