Hippotragus Sundevall 1845 (antelope)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae

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

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Carroll 1988, Gentry 2010, Grubb 2001, Hassanin and Douzery 1999 and Hassanin and Douzery 2003

Sister taxa: Addax, Chonnochaetes, Damalacra, Oryx, Praedamalis, Saheloryx, Tchadotragus

Subtaxa: Hippotragus bohlini Hippotragus cookei Hippotragus equinus Hippotragus gigas Hippotragus leucophaeus Hippotragus niger Hippotragus niro Hippotragus priscus

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Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (4), Djibouti (1), Ethiopia (6), Israel (2), Kenya (12), Morocco (1), South Africa (25), Sudan (5), Swaziland (1), Tanzania (11), Zambia (1)

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

• Pliocene of Algeria (1), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), South Africa (3), Tunisia (1)

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

• Miocene of Kenya (1)

Total: 88 collections including 99 occurrences

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