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Extinct genus of mammals

Ugandax
Temporal range: Miocene–Pleistocene
Life restoration of Ugandax gautieri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Subtribe: Bubalina
Genus: †Ugandax
Cooke & Coryndon, 1970
Species
  • Ugandax gautieri Cooke & Coryndon, 1970
  • Ugandax coryndonae Gentry, 2006

Ugandax is an extinct genus of bovines in the subtribe Bubalina that lived from the Miocene to the Pleistocene of Africa. Cladistic analyses suggest Ugandax represents an ancestral form of the African buffalo, Syncerus, and teeth assigned to Ugandax represent the earliest appearance of bovines in Africa.

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. 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.
Taxon identifiers
Ugandax
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