Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Parent taxon: Bovini according to A. W. Gentry 2010
See also Carroll 1988 and Geraads et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Bison, Bos, Bovina, Bubalina, Pseudorygini, Simatherium, Ugandax
Subtaxa: Pelorovis antiquus Pelorovis howelli Pelorovis kaisensis Pelorovis oldowayensis Pelorovis turkanensis
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (2 collections), Djibouti (1), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (10), Israel (2), Kenya (45), Morocco (2), Saudi Arabia (2), South Africa (13), Swaziland (1), Tanzania (9)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (5)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (3), Morocco (1), South Africa (2)
Total: 100 collections including 109 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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