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Kobus

Mammalia - Bovidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1840Kobus Smith
1885Cobus Lydekker p. 53
1988Kobus Carroll
2001Kobus Grubb p. 379
2008Kobus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 979 figs. Fig. 5
2010Kobus Gentry p. 774

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Ruminantiamorpha
—Ruminantia(Scopoli 1777)
—Pecora()
familyBovidae
subfamilyAntilopinaeGray 1821
tribeRedunciniKnottnerus-Meyer 1907
genusKobusSmith 1840

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. Kobus Smith 1840
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†Kobus barbarus Geraads and Amani 1998
†Kobus basilcookei Vrba 2006
Kobus defassa Rüppell 1835 [Defassa waterbuck]
†Kobus ellipsiprymnus Ogilby 1833 [waterbuck]
Kobus kob Erxleben 1777 [kob]
†Kobus korotorensis Geraads 2001
†Kobus laticornis Harris 2003
†Kobus leche Gray 1850
Kobus megaceros Fitzinger 1855
†Kobus oricornus Gentry 1985
†Kobus presigmoidalis Harris 2003
†Kobus sigmoidalis Arambourg 1941
†Kobus subdolus Gentry 1980
†Kobus tchadensis Gerrads 2001
Kobus vardoni Livingstone 1857
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean

Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: grazerf
Diet 2: browserf
Reproduction: viviparousf
Comments: based by MacFadden et al. (1999) on Walker (1975)g
Created: 2009-01-04 11:02:56
Modified: 2009-01-04 13:03:24
Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, MacFadden et al. 1999

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Messinian to the top of the Holocene or 7.24600 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 5.333 Ma

Collections (219 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Miocene - Pliocene23.03 - 2.588Uganda K. sp. (22385 22399)
Tortonian - Messinian11.62 - 5.333Kenya K. presigmoidalis (22241)
Tortonian - Zanclean11.62 - 3.6Kenya K. elliptica, K. sp. (22236)
Tortonian - Zanclean11.62 - 3.6Ethiopia K. sp., K. subdolus (22139) K. subdolus (22158)
Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene11.608 - 3.6Chad K. sp. (24181)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Kenya K. sp. (22307)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Chad K. sp. (59839)
Messinian - Zanclean7.246 - 3.6Kenya K. presigmoidalis, K. laticornis (22242)
Messinian - Piacenzian7.246 - 2.588South Africa (Cape) K. sp. (59167)
Messinian - Piacenzian7.246 - 2.588Kenya K. presigmoidalis (22237)
Early/Lower Pliocene5.333 - 3.6Tanzania K. subdolus (22043 22044)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Ethiopia K. sp. (22174)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Kenya K. sp. (22234)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6South Africa K. sp., K. subdolus (22221) K. subdolus (22222 22227)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Tanzania K. subdolus (22149 22153 22477 22480)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Malawi (Northern) K. patulicornis (226065)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Ethiopia (Afar) K. kob, K. sigmoidalis (70907)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Malawi K. sp. (22271)
Zanclean - Piacenzian5.333 - 2.588Kenya K. oricornis (21512) K. presigmoidalis (22235 22239)
Zanclean - Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Kenya K. sp. (22267)
Pliocene - Pleistocene5.333 - 0.0117Malawi K. patulicornis (22324) K. sigmoidalis (22323)
Pliocene - Pleistocene5.333 - 0.0117Congo-Kinshasa K. kob (22096 22106) K. sigmoidalis (22090)
Zanclean - Pleistocene5.333 - 0.0117Ethiopia K. kob (22197)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Morocco K. barbarus (32052)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Chad K. sp. (21962 22505) K. sp. large tail nov.sp.A, K. sp. tail moyenne,nov.sp.B (22506)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Kenya (Rift Valley) K. oricornis (21309)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Ethiopia (Afar) K. oricornus, K. sigmoidalis (224654)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Kenya K. oricornis (21438 21480) K. oricornis, K. kob, K. sigmoidalis (21425 21484 21485 21530 21536) K. sigmoidalis (21423)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Ethiopia K. oricornis (21549 21638 21640 21984) K. oricornis, K. kob (21608) K. sp. (21783 21785)
Piacenzian - Gelasian3.6 - 1.806Ethiopia (Afar) K. oricornus, K. sigmoidalis (224657)
Piacenzian - Gelasian3.6 - 1.806Kenya (Rift Valley) K. sp. (21344)
Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene3.6 - 0.781Kenya (Rift Valley) K. sigmoidalis (21289)
Late/Upper Pliocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene3.6 - 0.0117Uganda K. sp. (22178)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806Ethiopia (Afar) K. sigmoidalis (224655)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806Kenya K. sigmoidalis (21376 21398 21410 21418 21420 21461 21478 21486 32116) K. sigmoidalis, K. leche (21457 21474 21504) K. sp., K. kob, K. sigmoidalis (21503)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806Ethiopia K. ellipsiprymnus (21568 21744 21745 22006) K. kob (21613 21743 22009) K. kob, K. sigmoidalis (21621 21631) K. oricornis (21659) K. sigmoidalis (21545 21551 21554 21555 21562 21569 21590 21615 21619 21642 21644 21668 21670 21671 21682 21995 21996 21999 22018 22020 22022 22023 22026)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806Kenya (Rift Valley) K. oricornis, K. sp. (21282 21353) K. oricornis, K. sp., K. sigmoidalis (21283 21354) K. sigmoidalis (21285 21346) K. sp. (21356) K. sp., K. oricornis, K. sigmoidalis (21345) K. sp., K. sigmoidalis (21280 21286)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806Tanzania K. sigmoidalis (22596)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Eritrea (Buia) K. ellipsiprymnus (193126)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Algeria K. kob (69723)
Gelasian - Calabrian2.588 - 0.774Kenya K. ellipsiprymnus (32051 32053) K. kob (21448 21452 21515) K. kob, K. ellipsiprymnus, K. sigmoidalis (21367) K. kob, K. ellipsiprymnus, K. sigmoidalis, K. leche (21370) K. kob, K. leche (21454 21521) K. kob, K. sigmoidalis (21445 21458 21464 21502) K. kob, K. sigmoidalis, K. leche (21495 21532) K. leche (21415) K. sigmoidalis (21378 21396 21463 21472 21476 21496) K. sigmoidalis, K. leche (21402 21462)
Gelasian - Calabrian2.588 - 0.774Ethiopia (Ethiopian Rift) K. sigmoidalis (22490 22493 22496 22497) K. sp., K. sigmoidalis (22491 22492 22494 22498)
Gelasian - Calabrian2.588 - 0.774Tanzania K. sigmoidalis (21973)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117South Africa K. ellipsiprymnus (21825) K. leche (21956)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Eritrea (Afar Depression) K. ellipsiprymnus (22488)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Kenya K. sp. (21963 22268 22269 22270)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Kenya (Kisumu) K. ellipsiprymnus (22550)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Djibouti K. kob (22482) K. sp. (22486 22487)
Pleistocene - Holocene2.588 - 0.0Zambia K. ellipsiprymnus (21854)
Pleistocene - Holocene2.588 - 0.0South Africa K. ellipsiprymnus (21949)
Pleistocene - Holocene2.588 - 0.0Congo-Kinshasa K. kob (22074) K. sp. (22087)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774Kenya (Rift Valley) K. ellipsiprymnus (21347) K. kob (21299 21343) K. kob, K. sigmoidalis (21294) K. leche (21349) K. sigmoidalis (21297)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774South Africa K. ellipsiprymnus (21961)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774Kenya K. ellipsiprymnus (32057 32060) K. kob (21403 21441 21525) K. kob, K. leche (21368) K. kob, K. sigmoidalis (21514) K. sigmoidalis (21449)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774Ethiopia (Ethiopian Rift) K. sp. (22499)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774Algeria K. sp. (22584)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774Tanzania (Lake Natron Basin) K. sp. (22553 22554 22578 22579)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774Tanzania K. ellipsiprymnus (21968) K. kob (22626 22627) K. sigmoidalis (22616 22625 22628)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Ethiopia K. sp. (68070)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Djibouti K. sp. (209750)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117Kenya K. ellipsiprymnus (22276) K. sp. (21276) K. sp., K. ellipsiprymnus (22272)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117Ethiopia K. ellipsiprymnus, K. leche (22177) K. sp. (22134)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117Tanzania K. kob, K. ellipsiprymnus (21893)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Congo-Kinshasa K. defassa (22065) K. ellipsiprymnus (22066)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Cote D'Ivoire K. kob, K. defassa (21692)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Sudan K. ellipsiprymnus (21871) K. kob, K. ellipsiprymnus (208786)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Kenya K. ellipsiprymnus (21935)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Niger K. ellipsiprymnus (83303) K. kob (83305)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Congo-Kinshasa K. ellipsiprymnus (22067) K. kob (22073 22083) K. kob, K. ellipsiprymnus (22068) K. sp. (22126)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Zambia K. ellipsiprymnus (21895)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Tanzania K. defassa (21690)