Megalotragus Temporal range: Pliocene - late Pleistocene |
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Conservation status | |
Fossil
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Alcelaphinae |
Tribe: | Alcelaphini |
Genus: | Megalotragus van Hoepen, 1932 |
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Megalotragus is a genus of very large extinct African alcelaphines from the Pliocene and Pleistocene. It resembled modern hartebeests, but differed in larger body size, it includes the largest bovids in the tribe Alcelaphini, reaching a shoulder height of 1,4 m. Megalotragus disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene.