Sivacobus sankaliai Vrba, Bibi & Costa, 2015

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Gujarat, India

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Vrba, Elisabeth S, Bibi, Faysal and Costa, August G. (2015). First Asian record of a late Pleistocene reduncine (Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Reduncini), Sivacobus sankaliai, sp. nov., from Gopnath (Miliolite Formation) Gujarat, India, and a revision of the Asian genus Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(4): e943399. [Abstract]

Other references:

Lemoine, Rhys Taylor, Buitenwerf, Robert, Faurby, Sören and Svenning, Jens-Christian. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(7): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078 [Supporting Information: Data S1]

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-rice-anthropologist-extinct-antelope-species.html

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