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| Tragoportax Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Tribe: | Boselaphini |
| Genus: | †Tragoportax Pilgrim, 1937 |
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| †Tragoportax salmontanus Pilgrim, 1937
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Description[edit]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
Classification[edit]
Species[edit]
The following are the species classified under Tragoportax, all are extinct:[1][2]
- †Tragoportax abyssinicus
- Found in the Kuseralee Member of Middle Awash, Ethiopia, it has been dated to around 5.2 to 5.6 mya. It is named after the old Latin name for Ethiopia, Abyssinia. T. abyssinicus were a medium-sized species. Their horns were short and straight.
- †Tragoportax acrae (Gentry, 1974)
- Found in Langebaanweg, South Africa. Dated to the Miocene-Pliocene boundary.
- †Tragoportax amalthea (Roth and Wagner, 1854)
- †Tragoportax curvicornis Andree, 1926 (?)
- †Tragoportax cyrenaicus Thomas, 1979 (?)
- †Tragoportax macedoniensis Bouvrain, 1988
- Found in West Macedonia, Greece, from the Late Turolian (MN13). It is named after Macedonia.
- †Tragoportax maius Meladze, 1967
- syn. ?Tragoportax eldaricus (Gabashvili, 1956)
- Found in the Eldar Pine State Reserve of Azerbaijan. Existed during the Late Vallesian or Early Turolian.
- †Tragoportax rugosifrons (Schlosser, 1904)
- syn. T. parvidens (Schlosser, 1904); T. recticornis (Andree, 1926); T. punjabicus (Pilgrim, 1910); ?T. aiyengari (Pilgrim, 1939); ?T. ensicornis (Kretzoi, 1941)
- Found in Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Pakistan and possibly Iran. Existed from the Vallesian-Turolian boundary to the Middle or Late Turolian. Its name comes from Latin for 'wrinkled forehead'.
- †Tragoportax salmontanus Pilgrim, 1937
- Found in Siwaliks, Pakistan. Existed from around 8.1 to 7.9 mya.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Elisabeth S. Vrba, & Faysal Bibi (2009). "Bovidae". In Yohannes Haile-Selassie & Giday WoldeGabriel (ed.). Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. The Middle Awash Series, Volume 2. University of California Press. p. 277–290. ISBN 9780520254404.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Nikolai Spassov & Denis Geraads (2004). "Tragoportax Pilgrim, 1937 and Miotragocerus Stromer, 1928 (Mammalia, Bovidae) from the Turolian of Hadjidimovo, Bulgaria, and a revision of the late Miocene Mediterranean Boselaphini" (PDF). Geodiversitas. 26 (2). Publications Scientifiques du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris: 339–370.