Aepyceros

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Aepyceros
Temporal range: 3–0 Ma
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Pliocene – Recent
Aepyceros melampus petersi ♂.jpg
Impala (Aepyceros melampus)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Aepycerotinae
Gray, 1872
Genus: Aepyceros
Sundevall, 1847
Species

Aepyceros melampus - Impala
†Aepyceros datoadeni
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Aepyceros is a genus of African antelope that contains a single living species, the impala.

Two extinct species are known, Aepyceros datoadeni[1] and .[2] A third species, Aepyceros premelampus has been transferred to a new genus, .[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Denis Geraads, René Bobe & Kaye Reed (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.
  2. ^ Werdelin, Lars; Sanders, William Joseph (2010). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press. p. 765. ISBN 9780520257214.
  3. ^ Denis Geraads (2019). "A reassessment of the Bovidae (Mammalia) from the Nawata Formation of Lothagam, Kenya, and the late Miocene diversification of the family in Africa". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (2): 169–182. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1403493. S2CID 90461071.
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