Menelikia

Menelikia
Temporal range: Pliocene–Pleistocene
Partial cranium of Menelikia lyrocera
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Species
  • M. leakeyi
  • M. lyrocera

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.