Duboisia santeng
Duboisia santeng or Dubois' antelope is an extinct antelope-like bovid that was endemic to Indonesia during the Pleistocene. It went extinct during the Ionian stage of the Pleistocene, about 750.000 years ago. Duboisia santeng was first described by the Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist Eugène Dubois in 1891.

Ghedoghedo · 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.
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 129 ka.
3 occurrences of Duboisia santeng on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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.
Duboisia santeng and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Duboisia santeng and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Bos (Bibos)2 sites
- Bubalus palaeokerabau2 sites
- Cervus lydekkeri2 sites
- Crocodylus siamensis2 sites
- Gavialis bengawanicus2 sites
- Homo erectus2 sites
- Muntiacus muntjak2 sites
- Panthera tigris2 sites
- Rhinoceros sondaicus2 sites
- Stegodon trigonocephalus2 sites
- Aceratherium1 site
- Alicornops1 site
- Amyda cartilaginea1 site
- Batagur affinis1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Brachypotherium1 site
- Bramatherium1 site
- Chilotherium1 site
- Chitra1 site
- Chitra chitra1 site
- Crocodylus1 site
- Deinotherium1 site
- Duboisia aff. santeng1 site
- Elephas1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Duboisia santeng, 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
2 references- The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications. A study of the terrestrial faunal succession of Sulawesi, Flores and Java, including evidence for early hominid dispersal east of Wallace's Line2
- First occurrence of Duboisia (Bovidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from Thailand1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Duboisia santeng
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Duboisia santeng was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.