Rusingoryx atopocranion Pickford & Thomas, 1984
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Megalotragus atopocranion Pickford & Thomas, 1984
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Kenya (Rusinga Island & Mfangano Island)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Pickford, M. and Thomas, H. (1984). An aberrant new bovid (Mammalia) in subrecent deposits from Rusinga island, Kenya. Proceedings Koninklijke Akademie des Wetenschappen. B. 87(4): 441-452.
Other references:
Anderson, Sophia Christina. (2022). Funny Bones: Ecomorphology of the Bovid Distal Humerus and its Paleontological Implications. MSc thesis, Durham University.
Faith, J. Tyler. (2014). Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa. Earth-Science Reviews 128: 105-121.
J. Tyler Faith, Jonah N. Choiniere, Christian A. Tryon, Daniel J. Peppe, and David L. Fox. (2011). Taxonomic status and paleoecology of Rusingoryx atopocranion (Mammalia, Artiodactyla), an extinct Pleistocene bovid from Rusinga Island, Kenya. Quaternary Research 75(3): 697-707.
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Harris, J. M. (1991). Family Bovidae. In: Harris, J.M. (Ed.), Koobi Fora Research Project. The Fossil Ungulates: Geology, Fossil Artiodactyls, and Palaeoenvironments, 3. Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 139-320.
Holmes, Branden. (2021). What's Lost and What Remains: The Sixth Extinction in 100 Accounts (eBook). Self published.
Jenkins, Kirsten E. et al. (2017). Evaluating the potential for tactical hunting in the Middle Stone Age: Insights from a bonebed of the extinct bovid, Rusingoryx atopocranion. Journal of Human Evolution 108: 72-91. [Abstract]
Lauer, Daniel A. et al. (2023). Disruption of trait-environment relationships in African megafauna occurred in the middle Pleistocene. Nature Communications 14: 4016. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39480-8
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Tryon, C.A., Faith, J.T., Peppe, D.J., Fox, D.L., McNulty, K.P., Jenkins, K., Dunsworth, H., Harcourt-Smith, W. (2010). The Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya. J. Hum. Evol. 59: 657-671.
Tryon, C.A., Peppe, D.J., Faith, J.T., Van Plantinga, A., Nightengale, S., Ogondo, J. and Fox, David L. (2012). Late Pleistocene artefacts and fauna from Rusinga and Mfangano islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Azania Archaeol. Res. Afr. 47(1): 14-38.
Vrba, E. S. (1997). New fossils of Alcelaphini and Caprinae (Bovidae, Mammalia) from Awash, Ethiopia, and phylogenetic analysis of Alcelaphini. Paleontol. Afr. 34: 127-198.
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