Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Parent taxon: Bovinae according to A. Hassanin and E. J. P. Douzery 2003
See also Grubb 2001 and Hassanin and Douzery 1999
Sister taxa: Boselaphini, Bovini, Catoblepas, Duboisea, Platycerabos, Pseudonovibos, Simatherium
Subtaxa: Pheraios Taurotragus Tragelaphus
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (3 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (10), Ethiopia (80), Kenya (82), Libya (1), Morocco (4), Niger (1), Rwanda (1), South Africa (43), Sudan (4), Swaziland (3), Tanzania (28), Zambia (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Ethiopia (5), Kenya (6), Malawi (3), South Africa (4)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (21), Kenya (24), Malawi (2), Morocco (1), South Africa (5), Tanzania (12), Uganda (2)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (3), Kenya (4), South Africa (2), Tanzania (1)
• Miocene of Greece (3), Kenya (6)
Total: 370 collections including 553 occurrences