Pelorovis Reck 1928 (antelope)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae

Parent taxon: Bovini according to A. W. Gentry 2010

See also Carroll 1988 and Geraads et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Bos, Bovina, Bubalina, Pseudorygini, Ugandax

Subtaxa: Pelorovis antiquus Pelorovis howelli Pelorovis kaisensis Pelorovis oldowayensis Pelorovis turkanensis

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (2 collections), Djibouti (1), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (10), Israel (2), Kenya (45), Morocco (2), Saudi Arabia (2), South Africa (13), Swaziland (1), Tanzania (9)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (5)

• Pliocene of Ethiopia (3), Morocco (1), South Africa (2)

Total: 100 collections including 109 occurrences

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