Sivacobus is an extinct species of antelope that lived in South Asia during the Plio-Pleistocene.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Antilopinae |
| Tribe: | Reduncini |
| Genus: | †Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939 |
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Genus synonymy
S. palaeindicus synonymy
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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]
References
edit- ^ a b c Vrba, Elisabeth S.; Bibi, Faysal; Costa, August G. (2015-07-04). "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. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.943399. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 83914701.
- ^ "Sivacobus". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ "Sivacobus palaeindicus". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ Ruth, David. "Rice anthropologist identifies extinct antelope species in India". Phys.org.