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Short description: Extinct genus of mammals

Damalops
Temporal range: Pliocene – Pleistocene
Damalops.jpg
Damalops palaeindicus
Scientific classification
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
Genus: Damalops

Damalops is an extinct genus of Alcelaphinae. It lived during the Pliocene and Pleistocene in southern Asia, where the species Damalops palaeindicus is known from the Siwaliks in the northern part of the India n Subcontinent.[1]

Skull

References

  1. Vrba, E. S. (1979). "Phylogenetic analysis and classification of fossil and recent Alcelaphini Mammalia: Bovidae". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 11 (3): 207–228. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1979.tb00035.x. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5211934 entry