Nikolai Spassov

Nikolai Spassov (born 1951), Bulgarian zoologist and paleontologist.

• Former Director of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria.

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• 3 taxon names authored by Nikolai Spassov

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• & Geraads, D. 2004. Tragoportax Pilgrim, 1937 and Miotragocerus Stromer, 1928 (Mammalia, Bovidae) from the Turolian of Hadjidimovo, Bulgaria, and a revision of the late Miocene Mediterranean Boselaphini. Geodiversitas 26(2): 339–370. ResearchGate Online Reference page. 

• & Geraads, D. 2007 [2006]. Dolichopithecus balcanicus sp. nov., a new Colobinae (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the early Pliocene of southeastern Europe, with a discussion on the taxonomy of the genus. Journal of Human Evolution 52(4): 434–442. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.11.002 ResearchGate Reference page. 

• 2011. Acinonyx pardinensis (Croizet et Jobert) remains from the Middle Villafranchian locality of Varshets (Bulgaria) and the Plio-Pleistocene history of the cheetahs in Eurasia. Estudios Geológicos 67(2): 245–253. DOI: 10.3989/egeol.40464.187 Reference page. 

• & Geraads, D. 2015. A new felid from the Late Miocene of the Balkans and the contents of the genus Metailurus Zdansky, 1924 (Carnivora, Felidae). Journal of Mammalian Evolution 22(1): 45–56. DOI: 10.1007/s10914-014-9266-5 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• 2015. In memoriam Димитър Ковачев (1928–2013) [In memoriam Dimitar Kovachev (1928–2013)] Historia naturalis bulgarica 21: 214. Online. Reference page. 

• Fuss, J., , Begun, D.R. & Böhme, M. (2017). Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe. PLoS One 12(5): e0177127. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177127 . Reference page. 
• Li, Y. & 2017. A new species of Paramachaerodus (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) from the late Miocene of China and Bulgaria, and revision of Promegantereon Kretzoi, 1938 and Paramachaerodus Pilgrim, 1913. PalZ 91(3): 409–426. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-017-0371-7 Reference page. 

• Böhme, M., , Fuss J., Tröscher A., Deane A.S., Prieto J., Kirscher U., Lechner T., Begun D.R., 2019. A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans. Nature 575: 489–493. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1731-0 . PMID: 31695194. Reference page. 

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