Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Parent taxon: Hippotragini according to A. Hassanin and E. J. P. Douzery 2003
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Carroll 1988, Gentry 2010, Grubb 2001 and Hassanin and Douzery 1999
Sister taxa: Addax, Chonnochaetes, Oryx, Praedamalis, Saheloryx, Tchadotragus
Subtaxa: Hippotragus bohlini Hippotragus cookei Hippotragus equinus Hippotragus gigas Hippotragus leucophaeus Hippotragus niger Hippotragus niro Hippotragus priscus
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (4), Djibouti (1), Ethiopia (6), Israel (2), Kenya (12), Morocco (1), South Africa (25), Sudan (5), Swaziland (1), Tanzania (11), Zambia (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (4)
• Pliocene of Algeria (1), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (3), Tunisia (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Kenya (1)
Total: 88 collections including 99 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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