Redunca redunca
The bohor reedbuck is an antelope native to central Africa. The animal is placed under the genus Redunca and in the family Bovidae. It was first described by German zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas in 1767. The bohor reedbuck has five subspecies. The head-and-body length of this medium-sized antelope is typically between 100–135 cm (39–53 in). Males reach approximately 75–89 cm (30–35 in) at the shoulder, while females reach 69–76 cm (27–30 in). Males typically weigh 43–65 kg (95–143 lb) and females 35–45 kg (77–99 lb). This sturdily built antelope has a yellow to grayish brown coat. Only the males possess horns which measure about 25–35 cm (9.8–13.8 in) long.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- bohor reedbuckPBDB
- Sits inside
- ReduncaPBDB
- 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 most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
19 occurrences of Redunca redunca on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
19 occurrences- Pleistocene26%
- Holocene74%
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
1 formation
- Wehaietu Formation · Awash Group1
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The named rock units Redunca redunca 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.
Redunca redunca and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Redunca redunca and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
301 taxa- Hippopotamus amphibius11 sites
- Phacochoerus aethiopicus10 sites
- Thryonomys swinderianus9 sites
- Tragelaphus scriptus9 sites
- Clarias8 sites
- Kobus kob8 sites
- Syncerus caffer8 sites
- Alcelaphini7 sites
- Ourebia ourebi7 sites
- Bovidae6 sites
- Equus quagga burchelli6 sites
- Homo sapiens6 sites
- Kobus ellipsiprymnus6 sites
- Lates niloticus6 sites
- Loxodonta africana6 sites
- Potamochoerus porcus6 sites
- Alcelaphus buselaphus5 sites
- Hippotragus equinus5 sites
- Panthera pardus5 sites
- Reduncini5 sites
- Struthio camelus5 sites
- Synodontis5 sites
- Aspatharia4 sites
- Cercopithecidae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Redunca redunca, 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
13 references- Lakeside cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 years of Holocene population and environmental change3
- Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers at Ishango (eastern Zaire): the faunal evidence3
- Stratigraphy and geological history of the upper Semliki:a preliminary report3
- Fossil elephantoids, Awash paleolake basins, and the Afar triple junction, Ethiopia1
- A middle stone age worked bone industry from Katanda,Upper Semliki Valley,Zaire1
- Les faunes de vertebres quaternaires en Afrique centrale1
- Provenience, Age and Associations of Archaic Homo Sapiens Crania fron Lake Eyasi, Tanzania1
- A revision of the faunal remains from two central Sudanese sites: Khartoum Hospital and Esh Shaheinab1
- Faunal Evidence for Early Stockkeeping in the Central Rift Valley of Kenya: Preliminary Findings1
- The use of fish remains in African archaeozoology1
- The Structure and Dynamics of a West African Savanna1
- Serengeti: Dynamics of an Ecosystem1
Each of the 19 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. 1 further reference is 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 Redunca redunca
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- 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 itRedunca through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hamilton Smith 1827