Damalops

Damalops
Temporal range: Pliocene – Pleistocene
Damalops palaeindicus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
Genus: †Damalops
Pilgrim, 1939
Species:
†D. palaeindicus
Binomial name
†Damalops palaeindicus
Pilgrim, 1939

Damalops is an extinct genus of alcelaphine antelope. It lived during the Pliocene and Pleistocene in southern Asia, where the species Damalops palaeindicus is known from the Siwaliks in the northern part of the Indian Subcontinent.

Skull

Description

Damalops was a large sized alcelaphine, with an adult weight weighing between 125–342 kilograms (276–754 lb).

References

  1. ↑ Vrba, E. S. (1979). "Phylogenetic analysis and classification of fossil and recent Alcelaphini Mammalia: Bovidae". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 11 (3): 207–228. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1979.tb00035.x.
  2. ↑ Dennell, R. W.; Coard, R.; Turner, A. (December 2008). "Predators and scavengers in Early Pleistocene southern Asia". Quaternary International. 192 (1): 82. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2007.06.023.