Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Parent taxon: Tragelaphini according to A. Hassanin and E. J. P. Douzery 2003
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Carroll 1988, Grubb 2001 and Hassanin and Douzery 1999
Sister taxa: Pheraios, Taurotragus
Subtaxa: Tragelaphus angasii Tragelaphus arkelli Tragelaphus buxtoni Tragelaphus derbianus Tragelaphus eurycerus Tragelaphus gaudryi Tragelaphus imberbis Tragelaphus kyaloae Tragelaphus lockwoodi Tragelaphus nakuae Tragelaphus oryx Tragelaphus scriptus Tragelaphus spekii Tragelaphus strepsiceros
Ecology: ground dwelling browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (2 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (10), Ethiopia (80), Kenya (62), Niger (1), Rwanda (1), South Africa (26), Sudan (4), Swaziland (3), Tanzania (23), Zambia (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Ethiopia (5), Kenya (5), Malawi (3), South Africa (4)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (20), Kenya (21), Malawi (1), Morocco (1), South Africa (4), Tanzania (12), Uganda (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (3), Kenya (4), South Africa (2), Tanzania (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1)
• Miocene of Greece (2), Kenya (3)
Total: 311 collections including 403 occurrences
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