Damalborea
Name:
Damalborea.
Phonetic: Dam-al-bo-re-ah.
Named By: Alan W. Gentry - 2010.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Alcelaphinae.
Species: D. elisabethae
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: Ethiopia - Hadar Formation.
Time period: Piacenzian of the Pliocene.
Fossil representation: Skull.
Damalborea is a genus of alcelaphine bovid that lived in Africa during the Pliocene. As an alcelaphine Damalborea would have loosely resembled modern day wildebeest and hartebeest.
Further reading
- Chapter 38: Bovidae by Alan W. Gentry. In Cenozoic Mammals of
Africa. University of California Press. pp. 747–803 - L.
Werdelin & W. J. Sanders - 2010.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Random favourites
 |
 |
 |