Ugandax

Short description: Extinct genus of mammals

Ugandax

Temporal range: Miocene–Pleistocene

reconstruction of U. gautieri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Mammalia
Order:  | Artiodactyla
Family:  | Bovidae
Subfamily:  | Bovinae
Subtribe:  | Bubalina
Genus:  | †Ugandax
Cooke & Coryndon, 1970[1]
Species

* Ugandax gautieri Cooke & Coryndon, 1970
* Gentry, 2006 Ugandax coryndonae

Ugandax is an extinct genus of bovines in the subtribe Bubalina that lived from the Miocene to the Pleistocene of Africa.[2][3] Cladistic analyses suggest Ugandax represents an ancestral form of the African buffalo, Syncerus,[4] and teeth assigned to Ugandax represent the earliest appearance of bovines in Africa.[5]

## 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. 2. New York & London: Academic Press. pp. 107–224.
2. ↑ "Ugandax Cooke and Coryndon 1970". Fossilworks. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=42891. 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.
4. ↑ Haile-Selassie, Yohannes; Vrba, Elizabeth S.; Bibi, Faysal (2009). "Bovidae". Ardipithecus Kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. University of California Press. pp. 295–. ISBN 978-0-520-25440-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=Cgf82zR6GXsC&pg=PA295.
5. ↑ Gentry, A. W. (2012). "African Bovidae". Horns, Pronghorns, and Antlers: Evolution, Morphology, Physiology, and Social Significance. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 210–. ISBN 978-1-4613-8966-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=AVz1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA210.

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