Awashia suwai 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

Belongs to Awashia according to E. S. Vrba 1997

See also Gentry 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Middle Awash - Matabaietu fm., which is in a Zanclean/Pleistocene fluvial horizon in the Matabaietu Formation of Ethiopia

Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution: found only at Middle Awash - Matabaietu fm.

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