Antidorcas

Yathin sk · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

Also called

springbokPBDB

Sits inside

AntilopiniPBDB

Diet

grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae

Life habit

ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

• Miocene7%
• Pliocene11%
• Pleistocene65%
• Holocene16%

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Where Antidorcas and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Lupulella mesomelas24 sites
• Taurotragus oryx24 sites
• Raphicerus campestris21 sites
• Hippopotamus amphibius20 sites
• Bovidae19 sites
• Hystrix africaeaustralis19 sites
• Procavia capensis19 sites
• Redunca arundinum19 sites
• Alcelaphus buselaphus18 sites
• Connochaetes18 sites
• Connochaetes gnou18 sites
• Equus capensis17 sites
• Syncerus caffer17 sites
• Mellivora capensis16 sites
• Panthera pardus16 sites
• Felis lybica15 sites
• Panthera leo15 sites
• Parahyaena brunnea15 sites
• Phacochoerus aethiopicus15 sites
• Tragelaphus15 sites
• Tragelaphus strepsiceros15 sites
• Alcelaphini14 sites
• Oreotragus oreotragus14 sites
• Papio ursinus14 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Antidorcas, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

• Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Implications of Late Holocene Archaeological Faunas from the Orange Free State and North Central Cape Province, South AfricaKlein, 1979 · South African Archaeological Bulletin · journal article9
• The Swartkrans Palaeontological Research Project in perspective: results and conclusionsBrain, 1994 · South African Journal of Science2
• Swartkrans: A Cave's Chronicle of Early ManBrain, 1993 · Transvaal Museum Monograph Transvaal Museum. Pretoria2
• Fejej, Southern EthiopiaFleagle et al., 1992 · Research and Exploration · journal article2
• Laetoli: a Pliocene Site in Northern TanzaniaLeakey and Harris, 1987 · Clarendon Press, Oxford, Great Britain2
• Paleoecology of the late Tertiary fossil occurences in 'E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, South Africa and a reinterpretation of their geological contextHendey, 1981 · Annals of the South African Museum2
• BovidaeGentry, 1978 · Evolution of African Mammals. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts · book/book chapter2
• Geology,fauna and palaeoenvironments of the Ngorora Formation,Kenya Rift ValleyBishop and Pickford, 1975 · Nature (London)2
• Quaternary vertebrate fossil sites in the south-western Cape ProvinceHendey, 1969 · South African Archaeological Bulletin · journal article2
• Late Pleisticene Humans Remains from the Sea Harvest Site, Saldanha Bay, South AfricaGrine and Klein, 1993 · Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Wetenskap1
• Dating, Archaeology and Human Fossils from the Middle Stone Age Levels of Die Kelders, South AfricaGrine et al., 1991 · Journal of Human Evolution · journal article1
• The Archaeological Significance of Animal Bones from Acheulean Sites in Southern AfricaKlein, 1988 · The African Archaeological Review1

Each of the 61 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 33 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

What may have been alongside itAntilopini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sundevall 1847