Hippotragini
The subfamily Hippotraginae, alternatively considered the tribe Hippotragini is a clade of antelopes in the family Bovidae. They are grazers, rather than browsers. The family name comes from Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos), meaning "horse", and τράγος (trágos), meaning "he-goat". They have slightly horse-like characteristics of body size and proportions: long legs and a solid body with a relatively thick muscular neck.

See source, merged by User:MathKnight · 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- Sits inside
- AntilopinaePBDB
- 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 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
234 occurrences of Hippotragini 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
234 occurrences- Miocene7%
- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene53%
- Holocene7%
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
32 formations
- Vogel River Series Formation19
- Koobi Fora Formation16
- Wembere-Manonga Formation14
- Shungura Formation · Omo Group11
- Varswater Formation11
- Olduvai Formation · Vogel River Series Group9
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The named rock units Hippotragini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 85 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hippotragini and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Hippotragini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,106 taxa- Alcelaphini66 sites
- Equus57 sites
- Hipparion56 sites
- Gazella55 sites
- Tragelaphus strepsiceros49 sites
- Ceratotherium simum45 sites
- Bovidae42 sites
- Palaeoloxodon recki37 sites
- Reduncini36 sites
- Cercopithecidae32 sites
- Giraffa32 sites
- Lupulella mesomelas31 sites
- Raphicerus31 sites
- Libytherium maurusium30 sites
- Taurotragus oryx30 sites
- Ceratotherium29 sites
- Diceros bicornis29 sites
- Kolpochoerus limnetes29 sites
- Hyaenidae28 sites
- Panthera leo28 sites
- Tragelaphus28 sites
- Mammalia27 sites
- Panthera pardus27 sites
- Rhinocerotidae27 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 175 sites for Hippotragini, 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
106 references- Laetoli: a Pliocene Site in Northern Tanzania19
- Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa16
- Family Bovidae16
- Intoduction: Paleontological and Geological Research in the Manonga Valley, Tanzania12
- Taphonomy, Paleoecology, and Hominids of Lainyamok, Kenya5
- The Omo Group: Archives of the International Omo Research Expedition5
- Mid-Pleistocene change in large mammal faunas of East Africa4
- Later Stone Age Faunal Samples from Heuningneskrans Shelter (Transvaal) and Leopard's Hill Cave (Zambia)4
- Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa4
- A new genus of late Tertiary penguin from Langebaanweg, South Africa4
- Quaternary vertebrate fossil sites in the south-western Cape Province4
- Subsistence patterns of Early Pleistocene hominids in the Levant - taphonomic evidence from the 'Ubeidiya Formation3
Each of the 234 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. 94 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 content1
Picture of Hippotragini
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- See source, merged by User:MathKnight
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 itAntilopinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sundevall 1845)