Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Alternative spelling: Cobus
Parent taxon: Reduncini according to Z. T. Calamari 2021
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Carroll 1988, Gentry 2010, Grubb 2001 and Lydekker 1885
Sister taxa: Menelikia, Pelea, Redunca, Sivacobus, Thaleroceros, Zephyreduncinus
Subtaxa: Kobus barbarus Kobus basilcookei Kobus defassa Kobus ellipsiprymnus Kobus kob Kobus korotorensis Kobus laticornis Kobus leche Kobus megaceros Kobus oricornus Kobus presigmoidalis Kobus sigmoidalis Kobus subdolus Kobus tchadensis Kobus vardoni
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (2 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (9), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Djibouti (4), Eritrea (2), Ethiopia (46), Kenya (70), Niger (2), South Africa (4), Sudan (2), Tanzania (14), Zambia (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Ethiopia (2), Kenya (2), Malawi (2), Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Chad (3), Ethiopia (10), Kenya (14), Malawi (2), Morocco (1), South Africa (3), Tanzania (6)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Ethiopia (2), Kenya (3), South Africa (1), Uganda (2)
• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (2)
Total: 219 collections including 292 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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