Japanese gazelle

Japanese Gazelle
Temporal range: Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Antilopinae
Tribe: Antilopini
Genus: Gazella
Species: G. praegaudryi
Binomial name
Gazella praegaudryi

The Japanese Gazelle (Gazella praegaudryi) was a prehistoric gazelle species that lived in Japan. It competed with deer, serow, and wild boar. Its predators were brown bears, tigers, and wolves. It became extinct in the beginning of the ice age.

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