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Aepyceros sp. nov. 'Kenya'

Kenyan impala (proposed)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Kenya

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Faith, J. Tyler. (2014). Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa. Earth-Science Reviews 128: 105-121.
 
Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., Beverly, E.J., Blegen, N. (2013). Biogeographic and evolutionary implications of an extinct late Pleistocene impala from the Lake Victoria Basin. J. Mamm. Evol. 21: 213-222.
 
Garret, N., Fox, D., McNulty, K., Tryon, C., Peppe, D. (2010). Isotope paleoecology of the Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds of Rusinga Island, Kenya. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 30, 94A (supplement).

 

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