Sivacobus

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Sivacobus
Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Late Pleistocene
2.7–0.2  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Antilopinae
Tribe: Reduncini
Genus: Sivacobus
Pilgrim, 1939
Species [1]
  • Sivacobus palaeindicusLydekker, 1885
  • Sivacobus patulicornisLydekker, 1878
  • Sivacobus sankaliaiVrba et al, 2015
Synonyms [2] [3]
Genus synonymy
  • GangicobusPilgrim, 1939
  • HydaspicobusPilgrim, 1939
  • IndoreduncaPilgrim, 1939
  • SivadenotaPligrim, 1939
  • VishnucobusPilgrim, 1939
S. palaeindicus synonymy
  • Kobus palaeindicus

Sivacobus is an extinct species of antelope that lived in South Asia during the Plio-Pleistocene.

Sivacobus was the only known member of the antelope subfamily Reduncinae to occur outside of Africa. Previously, the Asian reduncines were assigned to at least six genera, but newer studies suggest that only three species, all in Sivacobus, are valid. [1] Most records of this genus are known from the Siwalik Pinjor Formation dated from 2.7 to 0.6 Ma. In 2015 a new species named Sivacobus sankaliai was described from an assemblage near Gopnath, northwestern India. The assemblage has been dated to under 200 ka, extending the temporal range of the genus, by over 300,000 years. [1] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Vrba, Elisabeth S.; Bibi, Faysal; Costa, August G. (2015-07-04). "First Asian record of a late Pleistocene reduncine (Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Reduncini), Sivacobus sankaliai, sp. nov., from Gopnath (Miliolite Formation) Gujarat, India, and a revision of the Asian genus Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (4): e943399. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.943399. ISSN   0272-4634. S2CID   83914701.
  2. "Sivacobus". Fossilworks . Retrieved 29 July 2021from the Paleobiology Database.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  3. "Sivacobus palaeindicus". Fossilworks . Retrieved 29 July 2021from the Paleobiology Database.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  4. Ruth, David. "Rice anthropologist identifies extinct antelope species in India". Phys.org.