Parmularius

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Parmularius
Fossil range: Pliocene - Pleistocene
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Alcelaphinae
Tribe: Alcelaphini
Genus: Parmularius
Species
  • P. pachyceras
  • P. ambiquus
  • P. pandatus
  • P. atlanticus
  • P. rugosus
  • P. altidens
  • P. angusticornis

Parmularius is a genus of large extinct African alcelaphines from the Pliocene and Pleistocene. It is a close relative of topi and hartebeest. One species is noticeable by its long, weakly-curved horns.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Charles Kimberlin Brain (1981), The Hunters Or the Hunted?: Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226070905, <http://books.google.com/books?id=E4JyZgr8y50C&pg=PA170&ots=5bt7eeTIIk&dq=Parmularius&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=y01iDz09k0swjRvVEs1_xuMTO_g> 
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