Damaliscus

The genus Damaliscus, commonly known as damalisks, is a genus of antelope in the family Bovidae, subfamily Alcelaphinae, found in Africa.

Damaliscus

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
antelopePBDB
Sits inside
AlcelaphiniPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 95 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 95 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 95 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 71 of 95 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 22 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 24 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 31 occurrences3.6 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

95 occurrences of Damaliscus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

95 occurrences

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.

Found in

19 formations

Nachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.70°ENachukui — 4.11°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.17°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 4.67°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 4.19°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 3.89°N, 35.75°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°ENubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°EOlduvai — 2.96°S, 35.32°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°ENubia — 23.00°N, 25.50°EMbuga/Yellow Clays — 3.87°S, 33.72°EMbuga Clays — 3.88°S, 33.72°EBredasdorp & Varswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°EKapthurin — 0.50°N, 36.00°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°E2 — 11.06°N, 42.28°EMatabaietu — 10.57°N, 40.58°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EHadar — 11.14°N, 40.58°E

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The named rock units Damaliscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Damaliscus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Damaliscus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

601 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Damaliscus, 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.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

56 references

Each of the 95 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. 44 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.

Media and terms

Media content4

Picture of Damaliscus

Credit
Charles J. Sharp
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Damaliscus lunatus

CT scan

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not stated by the source
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Specimen
Damaliscus korrigum jimela · USNM:MAMM:USNM 199074

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sclater and Thomas 1894