Awashia Vrba 1997 (antelope)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae

Full reference: E. S. Vrba. 1997. New fossils of Alcelaphini and Caprinae (Bovidae: Mammalia) from Awash, Ethiopia, and phylogenetic analysis of Alcelaphini. Palaeontologia Africana 34:127-198

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

See also Vrba 1997

Sister taxa: Alcelaphina, Beatragus, Connochaetes, Damalacra, Damalborea, Damaliscina, Damaliscus, Maremmia, Numidocapra, Parmularius, Sigmoceros

Subtaxa: Awashia suwai

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution: found only at Middle Awash - Matabaietu fm. (Pliocene of Ethiopia)

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