Ugandax

Ugandax Temporal range: Miocene–Pleistocene
Life restoration of Ugandax gautieri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Bovinae
Subtribe:	Bubalina
Genus:	† Ugandax Cooke & Coryndon, 1970 [1]
Species
Ugandax gautieriCooke & Coryndon, 1970 Ugandax coryndonaeGentry, 2006

Ugandax is an extinct genus of bovines in the subtribe Bubalina that lived from the Miocene to the Pleistocene of Africa. ^{[2] [3]} Cladistic analyses suggest Ugandax represents an ancestral form of the African buffalo, Syncerus , ^[4] and teeth assigned to Ugandax represent the earliest appearance of bovines in Africa. ^[5]

References

1. Cooke, H. B. S.; Coryndon, S. C. (1970). "Pleistocene Mammals from the Kaiso Formation and other related deposits in Uganda". Fossil Vertebrates of Africa. Vol. 2. New York & London: Academic Press. pp. 107–224.
2. "Ugandax Cooke and Coryndon 1970". Fossilworks. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
3. Geraads, Denis; Bobe, René; Reed, Kaye (2012). "Pliocene Bovidae (Mammalia) from the Hadar Formation of Hadar and Ledi-Geraru, Lower Awash, Ethiopia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (1): 180–197. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..180G. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.632046. S2CID   86230742.
4. Haile-Selassie, Yohannes; Vrba, Elizabeth S.; Bibi, Faysal (2009). "Bovidae". In Haile-Selassie, Yohannes; WoldeGabriel, Giday (eds.). Ardipithecus Kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. University of California Press. pp. 295–. ISBN   978-0-520-25440-4.
5. Gentry, A. W. (2012). "African Bovidae". In George A. Bubenik; Anthony B. Bubenik (eds.). Horns, Pronghorns, and Antlers: Evolution, Morphology, Physiology, and Social Significance. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 210–. ISBN   978-1-4613-8966-8.