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Antilopinae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	100489	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=100489

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Bovidae : Antilopinae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Ungulata
order	Artiodactyla	Owen 1848
-	Ruminantiamorpha	Spaulding et al. 2009
-	Ruminantia
-	Pecora
family	Bovidae	Gray 1821
subfamily	Antilopinae	Gray 1821

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Antilopinae	subfamily	belongs to Bovidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Antilopinae	subfamily	belongs to Bovidae	stated with evidence	Hassanin and Douzery, 1999
Antilopinae	subfamily	belongs to Bovidae	stated without evidence	Grubb, 2001
Antilopinae	subfamily	belongs to Bovidae	stated with evidence	Hassanin and Douzery, 2003
Antilopinae	subfamily	belongs to Bovidae	stated without evidence	Agnarsson and May-Collado, 2008

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

269

Extant Size (PBDB)

139 (52%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 11.6 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Artiodactyla)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

grazer, browser (based on Bovidae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Bovidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. Hassanin and E. J. P. Douzery. 2003. Molecular and morphological phylogenies of Ruminantia and the alternative position of the Moschidae. Systematic Biology 52(2):206-228

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aepycerotini tribe	listed (PBDB)		148	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Alcelaphini tribe	listed (PBDB)		849	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Antilopini tribe	listed (PBDB)		608	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Caprini tribe	listed (PBDB)		192	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Cephalophini tribe	listed (PBDB)		74	13.8 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Hippotragini tribe	listed (PBDB)		196	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Neotragini tribe	listed (PBDB)		218	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Pantholopini tribe	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Peleini tribe	listed (PBDB)		32	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Reduncini tribe	listed (PBDB)		649	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Etruria ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Homoiodorcas ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	23.0 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene
Litocranius genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Pantholops genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Chiru			0 Ma Extant
Parantidorcas ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Procapra genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	13.8 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Saiga genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Saiga	5	1.80 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1821	Antilopinae Gray
1902	Antilopinae Hay p. 687
1976	Etruria Hurzeler and Engesser
1976	Etruria viallii Hurzeler and Engesser p. 333
1999	Antilopinae Hassanin and Douzery p. 893
2001	Antilopinae Grubb p. 377
2003	Antilopinae Hassanin and Douzery p. 223
2008	Antilopinae Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 978 figs. Fig. 5
2010	Antilopinae Gentry p. 757
2016	Antilopinae Wang et al. pp. e1169190-2

References

Hassanin A., Douzery E. J. P. (2003) Molecular and morphological phylogenies of Ruminantia and the alternative position of the Moschidae, Systematic Biology 52 2, 206-228

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Hurzeler J., Engesser B. (1976) Les faunes de mammiferes neogenes du Bassin de Baccinello (Grosseto, Italie), Comptes Rendus de la Academie des Sciences Paris, Serie D 283, 333-336

Hassanin A., Douzery E. J. P. (1999) Evolutionary affinities of the enigmatic saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) in the context of the molecular phylogeny of Bovidae, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266, 893-900

Grubb R. (2001) Review of family-group names of living bovids, Journal of Mammalogy 82 2, 374-388

Agnarsson I., May-Collado L. J. (2008) The phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla: The importance of dense taxon sampling, missing data, and the remarkable promise of cytochrome b to provide reliable species-level phylogenies, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48, 964-985

Gentry A. W. (2010) Bovidae, Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, 747-803

Wang X., Li Q., et al (2016) Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, genus and species nov. (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 5, e1169190 doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1169190

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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