Damaliscus Sclater and Thomas 1894 (antelope)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae

Parent taxon: Alcelaphini according to Z. T. Calamari 2021

See also Carroll 1988, Gentry 2010, Geraads et al. 2004, Grubb 2001, Hassanin and Douzery 1999, Hassanin and Douzery 2003 and Vrba 1997

Sister taxa: Alcelaphina, Alcelaphus, Awashia, Beatragus, Connochaetes, Damalborea, Damaliscina, Maremmia, Numidocapra, Parmularius, Rusingoryx, Sigmoceros

Subtaxa: Damaliscus ademassui Damaliscus agelaius Damaliscus cuiculi Damaliscus dorcas Damaliscus gentryi Damaliscus hadari Damaliscus korrigum Damaliscus lunatus Damaliscus pygargus Damaliscus strepsiceras

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (4), Djibouti (1), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (5), Kenya (14), Morocco (3), South Africa (25), Sudan (2), Swaziland (3), Tanzania (8), Zambia (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (2), Kenya (2), Malawi (1), South Africa (4)

• Pliocene of Ethiopia (2), South Africa (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1), South Africa (1)

Total: 83 collections including 95 occurrences

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