Soergelia fossil map
Where fossils of Soergelia have been found, shown on the Earth as it looked about 0 million years ago and on today’s map.
Dots are fossil collections recorded in the Paleobiology Database. The “then” view moves today’s fossil sites back to their positions 0 million years ago (the time slice nearest the median age of the fossils) using the Merdith et al. (2021) plate model; positions are approximate. Open on the timeline map →
| Group | Early mammals |
|---|---|
| Lived | 2.58–0.0117 million years ago (Gelasian to Late Pleistocene) |
| Periods | Quaternary |
| Family | Bovidae |
| Named by | Schaub 1951 |
| Fossil records | 24 occurrences at 12 locations (PBDB) |
| Found in | United States, Greece, Canada, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Georgia, Netherlands |
| Rock formations | txn:42742, Tule, Platanochori, Gerakarou |
About Soergelia
Soergelia is a genus of extinct ovibovine caprine that was common across Europe, North America and Asia in the Pleistocene epoch.
Species include:
†Soergelia brigittae Kostopolous, 1997
†Soergelia minor Moyà-Solà, 1987. Found in Italy.
†Soergelia intermedia Crégut-Bonnoure & Dimitrijević, 2006. Found in Macedonia.
†Soergelia elisabethae Schaub, 1951
†Soergelia mayfieldi Troxell, 1915. Found in Texas.
†Soergelia longdanensis Bai & Wang, 2025 Found in China.
Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Soergelia (revision 1358262265), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; introduction excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Ages, family, authority and fossil records: Paleobiology Database, accessed 23 October 2026. Ages are those of the rock layers the fossils were found in. Wikidata: Q16766430.
