Genus Demecquenemia n. gen. TYPE SPECIES. — Demecquenemia rodleri (Pilgrim & Hopwood, 1928) n. comb. ETYMOLOGY. — Dedicated to R. de Mecquenem, one of the Maragheh pioneers. DIAGNOSIS. — As for the single known species. TAXONOMIC OVERVIEW Rodler & Weithofer (1890) described a frontlet from Maragheh (NHMW A4898) as a new species, Gazella capricornis, to which Mecquenem (1925) assigned later several specimens from the same area, now in MNHN.F. Pilgrim & Hopwood (1928) were the first authors to point out that “ Gazella capricornis ” from Maragheh is a different species from Gazella capricornis from Pikermi, and proposed referring the Maragheh bovid to a new species, Gazella rodleri. Pilgrim (1939) suggested affiliations of G. rodleri with Oioceros Gaillard, 1902, an idea rejected by Gentry (1970) but adopted by Solounias (1981). Korotkevich (1976) ascribed to this species a rich sample from Belka (Ukraine) and she assigned it to a new subgenus Procapra (Vetaprocapra) rodleri, the type species of which is Antilope capricornis Wagner, 1848. Bernor (1978) refers to the species as Gazella rodleri but Bouvrain (1996) explicitly excluded it from Gazella. Gentry & Heizman (1996) challenged once again its generic attribution and provisionally allocated it to Hispanodorcas Thomas, Morales & Heintz, 1982.

Published as part of Kostopoulos, Dimitrios S. & Bernor, Raymond L., 2011, The Maragheh bovids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): systematic revision and biostratigraphiczoogeographic interpretation, pp. 649-708 in Geodiversitas 33 (4) on page 658, DOI: 10.5252/g2011n4a6, http://zenodo.org/record/5377377