Damalops

Damalops
Damalops
Temporal range: Pliocene - Pleistocene
Damalops palaeindicus
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
Tribe: Alcelaphini
Genus: Damalops

Damalops is an extinct genus of Alcelaphinae. It lived during the Pleistocene in southern Asia, where the species Damalops palaeindicus is known from the Siwaliks in the northern part of the Indian Subkontinent [1].

References

  1. ^ Vrba, E., S. (1979). Phylogenetic analysis and classification of fossil and recent Alcelaphini Mammalia: Bovidae. Biological Journal of Linnean Society, 11:207-228.