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Taxonomy
Oryx was named by de Blainville (1816). It is extant.
It was assigned to Bovidae by Carroll (1988); to Hippotraginae by Grubb (2001) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Hippotragini by Gentry (2010) and Calamari (2021).
It was assigned to Bovidae by Carroll (1988); to Hippotraginae by Grubb (2001) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Hippotragini by Gentry (2010) and Calamari (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1816 | Oryx de Blainville |
| 1988 | Oryx Carroll |
| 2001 | Oryx Grubb p. 382 |
| 2008 | Oryx Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 979 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2010 | Oryx Gentry p. 780 |
| 2021 | Oryx 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.
G. Oryx de Blainville 1816 [oryx]
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Oryx beisa Rüppell 1835 [East African oryx]
Oryx dammah Cretzschmar 1827
†Oryx eleulmensis Arambourg 1979
Oryx gazella Linnaeus 1758 [gemsbok]
†Oryx sivalensis Pilgrim 1939
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Holocene or 3.60000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma
Collections (40 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pliocene | Ethiopia (Afar) | Oryx sp. (70907) | |
| Pliocene | Georgia | Oryx sp. (40392) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Malawi | Oryx gazella (22323) Oryx sp. (22327) | |
| Zanclean - Pleistocene | Ethiopia | Oryx sp. (22197) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | South Africa | Oryx gazella (22340) | |
| Gelasian | Ethiopia | Oryx sp. (21635 21657 21983) | |
| Gelasian | Kenya | Oryx sp. (21461 21478) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Algeria (Northern Algeria) | Oryx eleulmensis (197944) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Algeria | Oryx gazella (69723) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Kenya | Oryx sp. (21396 21454 21458 21462 21496 21515) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Ethiopia (Ethiopian Rift) | Oryx sp. (22492) | |
| Pleistocene | Israel | Oryx gazella (37026) | |
| Pleistocene | Kenya | Oryx sp., Oryx beisa (21963) | |
| Pleistocene | Saudi Arabia | Oryx sp. (48858) | |
| Pleistocene | Morocco | Oryx sp. (22489) | |
| Calabrian | Tanzania | Oryx sp. (22628) | |
| Calabrian | Algeria | Oryx gazella (22584) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Syria | Oryx sp. (67660) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Morocco | Oryx gazella (42866) Oryx sp. (34287 34330) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Tanzania | Oryx gazella (21893) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya | Oryx beisa (21277) Oryx sp. (21276 22272) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya (Athi-Kapiti plains) | Oryx gazella (32115) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | South Africa | Oryx gazella (115184) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya (Athi-Kapiti Plains) | Oryx gazella (32113) | |
| Holocene | South Africa | Oryx gazella (21896) | |
| Holocene | Egypt | Oryx dammah (21907) | |
| Holocene | Tanzania | Oryx gazella (21690) |