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Tragoportax
Temporal range: Turolian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Tribe: Boselaphini
Genus: Tragoportax
Pilgrim, 1937
Type species
Tragoportax salmontanus
Pilgrim, 1937
Synonyms[1]
  • ?Gazelloportax Kretzoi, 1941
  • Mesembriportax Gentry, 1974
  • Mesotragocerus Korotkevich, 1982
  • ?Mirabilocerus Hadjiev, 1961
  • Pontoportax Kretzoi, 1941
  • Tragoceridus Kretzoi, 1968
  • Tragocerus Gaudry, 1861

Description

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Distribution and habitat

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Classification

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Species

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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 (?)
Found in Siwaliks, Pakistan. Existed during the Turolian. It's name comes from Latin for 'curved horn'.
  • Tragoportax cyrenaicus Thomas, 1979 (?)
From Sahabi, Libya, probably Late Miocene. It is named after the Ancient Greek name of the eastern Libyan coast, Cyrenaica.
  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ 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)
  2. ^ 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.