Pelorovis Temporal range: Early Pleistocene-Late Pleistocene,
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Pelorovis oldowayensis Skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Bovinae |
Genus: | †Pelorovis Reck, 1928 |
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Pelorovis ("prodigious/monstrous sheep"[1]) is an extinct genus of African wild cattle which existed during the Pleistocene epoch.[2] The best known species is Pelorovis oldowayensis from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, from the Early Pleistocene. The species "Pelorovis" antiquus from the Late Pleistocene-Holocene has since been moved into Syncerus, the same genus as living African buffalo.