Antilope

Antilope is a genus of twisted-horn bovid that contains a single living species, the blackbuck of South Asia. Two extinct species are also known.

Antilope

Chinmayisk · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AntilopiniPBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 31 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 13 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences11.63 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Antilope 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

31 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

13 formations

Babladanga — 23.50°N, 87.00°ELothagam 1 — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°EMpesida — 0.83°N, 35.83°EShungura — 5.15°N, 36.03°EWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.72°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EBredasdorp (?) — 32.98°S, 18.15°EBahe — 33.50°N, 109.50°EPoate — 35.71°N, 111.66°ENagrota — 32.70°N, 74.85°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°E

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The named rock units Antilope has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Antilope and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Antilope and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

391 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Antilope, 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

21 references

Each of the 31 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. 9 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 Antilope

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

Structured light scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Antilope sp. · MNHN:ZM:MO-1992-618

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.

Keep going

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. Pallas 1766