Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Alternative spelling: Hippotraginae
Parent taxon: Antilopinae according to A. Hassanin and E. J. P. Douzery 2003
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Bouvrain 1998, Gentry 2010, Grubb 2001 and Hassanin and Douzery 1999
Sister taxa: Aepycerotini, Alcelaphini, Antilopini, Caprini, Cephalophini, Etruria, Etruria, Homoiodorcas, Litocranius, Nemorhoedus, Neotragini, Pantholopini, Pantholops, Parantidorcas, Peleini, Reduncini, Urmiatherium
Subtaxa: Addax Chonnochaetes Hippotragus Oryx Praedamalis Saheloryx Tchadotragus
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (3 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (4), Djibouti (1), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (15), Israel (2), Kenya (23), Morocco (4), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (28), Sudan (5), Swaziland (1), Syria (1), Tanzania (17), Zambia (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (2), Kenya (1), Malawi (3), South Africa (4)
• Pliocene of Algeria (1), Chad (1), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (5), Georgia (1), Kenya (3), Malawi (1), South Africa (4), Tanzania (17), Tunisia (1), Turkey (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (2), Kenya (2), South Africa (1), Tanzania (1)
• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (3)
Total: 164 collections including 203 occurrences