Antidorcas recki is an extinct species of gazelle, related to the extant springbok, from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of southern and eastern Africa.[1][3]
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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: | Antilopini |
| Genus: | Antidorcas |
| Species: | A. recki
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| Antidorcas recki (Schwarz, 1932)[2]
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Taxonomy
editAntidorcas recki was named in 1932 by Schwarz, and assigned to Adenota.[2] It was subsequently reassigned to its own genus, Phenacotragus, also by Schwarz. In 1965, Louis Leakey referred two cranial fragments from Olduvai Gorge to Phenacotragus.[4] Alan William Gentry later wrote about gazelle material recovered from Olduvai, assigning several skull fragments to Gazella wellsi. He noted the similarities between G. wellsi and P. recki, and suggested they be sunk into the genus Antidorcas, but hesitated to synonymise them.[5] However, personal communications with Elisabeth Vrba suggest that he intended to at a later date.[6] Gentry later did so, forming the combination Antidorcas recki.[3][7]
Description
editSimilar to the modern springbok, Antidorcas recki was sexually dimorphic, with males having flattened horn cores that bent backwards sharply, and females having slender, straight cores with a round cross-section.[7] It may have been more sexually dimorphic than its living relative.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Antidorcas recki in the Paleobiology Database
- ^ a b Schwarz, E (1932). "Neue diluviale Antilopen aus Ostafrika". Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie B: 1–4.
- ^ a b c d Cooke, H. B. S. (15 December 1996), "Sexual dimorphism in Antidorcas recki from Bolt's Farm, South Africa, in the University of California collections", Sexual dimorphism in Antidorcas recki from Bolt's Farm, South Africa, in the University of California collections, University of Toronto Press, pp. 537–553, doi:10.3138/9781487574154-026, ISBN 978-1-4875-7415-4, retrieved 17 August 2024
- ^ Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett (1965). "Olduvai Gorge 1951-1961, Vol.1: A Preliminary Report on the Geology and Fauna". Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 109.
- ^ Gentry, Alan William. "Fossil Antilopini of East Africa". British Museum of Natural History Bulletin (Geology Series). 12: 43–106.
- ^ Vrba, Elisabeth (1973). "Two species of Antidorcas Sundevall at Swartkrans (Mammalia, Bovidae)". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 28: 287–352.
- ^ a b Gentry, Alan William; Gentry, A (1978). "Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Part I.". British Museum of Natural History Bulletin (Geology Series). 29: 290–446.