Menelikia Temporal range:
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Partial cranium of Menelikia lyrocera | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Reduncinae |
Genus: | †Menelikia Arambourg, 1941 |
Type species | |
†Menelikia lyrocera Arambourg, 1941
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Menelikia is a genus of extinct Artiodactyl mammals, belonging to the bovids. It lived from the middle Pliocene to the middle Pleistocene (circa 4.1 - 1.4 million years ago) and its fossils are found in East Africa.