| Protovis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Caprinae |
| Genus: | †Protovis |
| Species: | †P. himalayensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Protovis himalayensis Wang, Li & Takeuchi, 2016
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Protovis himalayensis is a prehistoric species of sheep found in latest Miocene to Late Pliocene-aged1 strata of Himalayan Tibet in 2016.23
Protovis was found only by some fragments such as its horns. Its discovery showed that modern mountain sheep first evolved from the genus Protovis.1
References
References
- Wang, Xiaoming; Li, Qiang; Takeuchi, Gary T. (2016-09-02). "Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, genus and species nov. (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (5) e1169190. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1169190. ISSN 0272-4634.
- "New species from the Pliocene of Tibet reveals origin of ice age mountain sheep". Science Daily. May 11, 2016.
- Chinese Academy of Sciences. "New species from the Pliocene of Tibet reveals origin of Ice Age mountain sheep". phys.org. Retrieved 2023-05-10.