Hippotragus

Hippotragus is a genus of antelopes which includes two living and one recently extinct species, as well as some fossil relatives. The genus name comes from Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos), meaning "horse", and τράγος (trágos), meaning "he-goat", and thus, "horse goat".

Hippotragus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HippotraginiPBDB
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 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 99 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 99 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 71 of 99 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 13 of 99 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–4.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.0–3.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 12 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 13 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 13 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

99 occurrences of Hippotragus 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

99 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

Koobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.92°N, 36.38°EOlduvai — 2.97°S, 35.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°ENachukui — 4.15°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 3.89°N, 35.75°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°ENubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°EBredasdorp (?) — 32.98°S, 18.15°E'Ubeidiya — 32.68°N, 35.57°EMuluk — 30.42°N, 30.25°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.01°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°E2 — 11.06°N, 42.28°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EVarswater — 32.96°S, 18.11°EGar El Muluk — 30.37°N, 30.32°ESlama — 35.80°N, 0.58°E

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The named rock units Hippotragus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hippotragus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hippotragus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

749 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Hippotragus, 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

66 references

Each of the 99 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. 54 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 content2

Picture of Hippotragus

Credit
Badboybenny
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
HQ3DMOD
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itHippotragini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sundevall 1845