Palaeoryx

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

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| taxon = Palaeoryx

| fossil_range = Miocene

| authority = Gaudry, 1861

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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| {{extinct}}Palaeoryx majori | Schlosser, 1904

| {{extinct}}Palaeoryx minor | Vasileiadis et al., 2019

| {{extinct}}Palaeoryx pallasi | Wagner, 1857

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Palaeoryx was a genus of bovid that lived during the Miocene epoch.

Geographic range

Fossils of P. minor are known from Greece.{{Cite journal |last1=Vasileiadis |first1=Nikolaos |last2=Tsoukala |first2=Evangelia |last3=Kostopoulos |first3=Dimitris S. |date=1 September 2019 |title=The late Miocene bovids from Platania (Drama Basin, Greece), with description of a new species of Palaeoryx |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001669951830175X |journal=Geobios |volume=55 |pages=57–76 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2019.06.005 |bibcode=2019Geobi..55...57V |issn=0016-6995 |access-date=6 September 2024 |via=Elsevier Science Direct|url-access=subscription }}

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