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Alcelaphini

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	100497	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=100497

Rank

tribe (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Bovidae : Alcelaphini

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
tribe	Alcelaphini	Brookes 1876

Opinions (PBDB)

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

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

15 (26%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 7.2 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
Alcelaphina ✝ subtribe	listed (PBDB)		75	5.33 Ma Miocene	1.81 Ma Pleistocene
Damaliscina ✝ subtribe	listed (PBDB)
Alcelaphus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Hartebeest	149	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Awashia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Beatragus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Hirola	24	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Connochaetes genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Wildebeest	163	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Damalacra ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		30	23.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Damalborea ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Damaliscus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Antelope	116	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Maremmia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	11.6 Ma Miocene	8.70 Ma Miocene
Numidocapra ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	5.33 Ma Miocene	0.78 Ma Pleistocene
Parmularius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		45	23.0 Ma Miocene	0.78 Ma Pleistocene
Sigmoceros genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1876	Alcelaphini Brookes
1999	Alcelaphini Hassanin and Douzery p. 893
2001	Alcelaphinae Grubb p. 380
2003	Alcelaphini Hassanin and Douzery p. 223
2008	Alcelaphinae Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 979 figs. Fig. 5
2010	Alcelaphinae Gentry p. 781

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

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

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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