Antidorcas recki
Authors/Creators
- 1. Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) and UMR 7194 Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), MNHN / CNRS / UPVD, Alliance Sorbonne Université, Institut de Paléontologie humaine, 1 rue René Panhard, 75013 Paris (France)
- 2. UMR 7194 Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), MNHN / CNRS / UPVD, Alliance Sorbonne Université, Institut de Paléontologie humaine, 1 rue René Panhard, 75013 Paris (France)
- 3. UMR 7194 Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), MNHN / CNRS / UPVD, Alliance Sorbonne Université, 17 place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris (France)
- 4. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 (United States)
- 5. Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) and DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, Johannesburg (South Africa)
Description
Antidorcas cf. recki (Schwarz, 1932)
The two horn-cores CD 3111 and CD 8268 are similar to the Antidorcas recki material from other Plio-Pleistocene sites (Fig. 5). They display a mediolateral compression, a strong backward curvature, and a lack of divergence or torsion (Gentry & Gentry 1978). The comparison of A. recki horn-corn measurements, with other extinct and extant Antidorcas species, shows that Cooper’s material fits comfortably within the A. recki size range from both East and South Africa (Fig. 6).
The teeth are similar to A. marsupialis but undoubtedly smaller (Figs 4; 7). For the dentition, we follow E. S. Vrba (Vrba 1973, 1974), who showed that M2 dimensions, and especially mesio-distal diameters, allow to separate A. recki from A. australis (Hendey, 1968) and A. marsupialis at Kromdraai A. We identified at least eight individuals (two juveniles, four adults and two old individuals).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Schwarz
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Antidorcas
- Species
- recki
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Antidorcas recki (Schwarz, 1932) sec. Hanon, Péan, Patou-Mathis, Prat, Rector & Steininger, 2022
References
- GENTRY A. W. & GENTRY A. 1978. - Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Parts I and II. Bulletin of The Natural History Museum, Geology Series 29: 289-446.
- VRBA E. S. 1973. - Two species of Antidorcas Sundevall at Swartkrans (Mammalia: Bovidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 28 (15): 287-352. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA00411752_1044
- VRBA E. S. 1974. - The fossil Bovidae of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans and Kromdraai. Transvaal Museum Memoirs 21: 1-166.