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Caprinae
Taxonomy
Caprinae was named by Gray (1821) [Originally Family Capridae.]. It is extant.
It was reranked as the tribe Caprini by Hassanin and Douzery (1999), Hassanin and Douzery (2003), Wang et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Ruminantes by Gray (1821); to Antilopinae by Hassanin and Douzery (1999), Hassanin and Douzery (2003), Wang et al. (2016); and to Bovidae by Gill (1872), Hay (1902), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Alcala and Morales (1997), Grubb (2001), Mead and Taylor (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Gentry (2010), Calamari (2021).
It was reranked as the tribe Caprini by Hassanin and Douzery (1999), Hassanin and Douzery (2003), Wang et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Ruminantes by Gray (1821); to Antilopinae by Hassanin and Douzery (1999), Hassanin and Douzery (2003), Wang et al. (2016); and to Bovidae by Gill (1872), Hay (1902), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Alcala and Morales (1997), Grubb (2001), Mead and Taylor (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Gentry (2010), Calamari (2021).
Subtaxa
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1821 | Caprinae Gray p. 307 |
| 1872 | Caprinae Gill |
| 1902 | Caprinae Hay p. 687 |
| 1980 | Caprinae Kurten and Anderson p. 326 |
| 1997 | Caprinae Alcala and Morales p. 947 |
| 1999 | Caprini Hassanin and Douzery |
| 2001 | Caprini Grubb p. 383 |
| 2001 | Caprinae Grubb p. 385 |
| 2003 | Caprini Hassanin and Douzery p. 210 figs. Table 1 |
| 2005 | Caprinae Mead and Taylor p. 3 |
| 2005 | Caprini Mead and Taylor p. 3 |
| 2008 | Caprinae Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 979 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2010 | Caprinae Gentry p. 791 |
| 2010 | Caprini Gentry p. 792 |
| 2016 | Caprini Wang et al. pp. e1169190-2 |
| 2021 | Caprinae Calamari |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the MN 10 to the top of the Holocene or 9.67000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 8.725 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 8.725 Ma
Collections (61 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vallesian | Iraq | Ovibovini indet. (41735) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Algeria (Oran) | Damalavus boroccoi (136913) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Algeria | Damalavus boroccoi (34643) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene | Spain (Castellón) | Ovibovini indet. (183092) | |
| MN 10 | Spain (Teruel) | Aragoral mudejar (38345) | |
| Messinian - Piacenzian | South Africa (Cape) | Ovibovini indet. (59167) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Armenia (Shirak) | Caprinae indet. (241915 241926) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Spain (Balearic Islands) | Myotragus palomboi (136065) | |
| Zanclean | South Africa | Ovibovini indet. (22221 22222) | |
| Zanclean | Kenya | Ovibovini indet. (22234) | |
| Pliocene - Calabrian | South Africa | Makapania broomi (21791) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Hungary (Barany) | Caprinae indet. (35359) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Italy (Sardinia) | C. sp., Caprinae indet. (51478) | |
| Ruscinian | Italy (Sardinia) | Caprinae indet. (49332) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | South Africa | Makapania broomi (22340) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Spain (Majorca (Mallorca)) | Myotragus kopperi (68812) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene | India (Punjab) | Caprinae indet. (236043) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Hebei) | Ovibovini indet. (231023) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene | Spain (Majorca (Mallorca)) | Myotragus sp. (68813) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Italy (Sardinia) | Caprinae indeterminate (94327) | |
| Villafranchian | Spain (Castellon) | Ovibovini indet. (34929) | |
| Villafranchian | Greece (Thessaly) | Caprinae indet., Ovibovini indet. (34614) | |
| Gelasian | Ethiopia | Ovibovini indet. (21555 21632) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Russian Federation (Western Transbaikalia) | Ovibovini indet. (40266) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Guanxi) | Caprinae indet. (230994) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Spain (Murcia) | Ovibovini indet. (34911) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | South Africa | Makapania sp. (21824) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | France (Alpes Maritimes) | Ovibovini sp. (50342) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Italy (Foggia) | Caprinae indet., Ovibovini indet. (41007) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China ( Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) | Caprinae indet. (214689) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Spain (Mallorca) | Myotragus kopperi (214536) | |
| Pleistocene | Spain (Islas Baleares) | Myotragus balearicus (36974) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | Ethiopia | Nitidarcus asfawi (22166) | |
| Calabrian | South Africa | Makapania broomi (21822) | |
| Calabrian - Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Sardinia) | Caprinae indet. (51482) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (California) | Ovibovini indet. (26548) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Caprinae indet. (235740) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Spain (Valencia) | Caprinae indet. (221422 221424) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Caprinae indet. (120834) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya (Athi-Kapiti) | Caprinae indet. (32119) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain (Valencia) | Caprinae indet. (205285 221412 221413 221414 221416 221417) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya (Athi-Kapiti plains) | Caprinae indet. (32124) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Tennessee) | Ovibovini indet., Ovibovini sp. (63424) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | Canada (Yukon) | Ovibovini indet. (20626 20627) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Greece (Peloponnesus) | Caprinae indet. (208563) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Gibraltar | Caprinae indet. (90037) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Greece (Ioannina) | Caprinae indet. (208564 208565) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya (Athi-Kapiti Plains) | Caprinae indet. (32138) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Virginia) | Ovibovini indet. (103358) | |
| Holocene | Russian Federation | Caprinae indet. (171637) |