Taurotragus arkelli Temporal range: Pleistocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Bovinae |
Genus: | Taurotragus |
Species: | †T. arkelli
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Binomial name | |
†Taurotragus arkelli Leakey, 1965
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Taurotragus arkelli is an extinct species of eland from Eastern Africa that lived during the Pleistocene. T. arkelli was roughly 5.5 m (18 ft) long and 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) tall, making it larger than the extant Giant eland.