Sivacobus

Sivacobus Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Late Pleistocene 2.7–0.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Antilopinae
Tribe:	Reduncini
Genus:	†Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939
Species[1]
†Sivacobus palaeindicus Lydekker, 1885 †Sivacobus patulicornis Lydekker, 1878 †Sivacobus sankaliai Vrba et al, 2015
Synonyms[2][3]
Genus synonymy Gangicobus Pilgrim, 1939 Hydaspicobus Pilgrim, 1939 Indoredunca Pilgrim, 1939 Sivadenota Pligrim, 1939 Vishnucobus Pilgrim, 1939 S. palaeindicus synonymy Kobus palaeindicus

Sivacobus is an extinct species of antelope that lived in South Asia during the Plio-Pleistocene.

Sivacobus was the only known member of the antelope subfamily Reduncinae to occur outside of Africa. Previously, the Asian reduncines were assigned to at least six genera, but newer studies suggest that only three species, all in Sivacobus, are valid.^[1] Most records of this genus are known from the Siwalik Pinjor Formation dated from 2.7 to 0.6 Ma. In 2015 a new species named Sivacobus sankaliai was described from an assemblage near Gopnath, northwestern India. The assemblage has been dated to under 200 ka, extending the temporal range of the genus, by over 300,000 years.^[1][4]

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