| Damalops Temporal range: Pliocene – Pleistocene
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| Damalops palaeindicus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Alcelaphinae |
| Genus: | †Damalops Pilgrim, 1939 |
| Species: | †D. palaeindicus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Damalops palaeindicus Pilgrim, 1939
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Damalops is an extinct genus of alcelaphine antelope. It lived during the Pliocene and Pleistocene in southern Asia, where the species Damalops palaeindicus is known from the Siwaliks in the northern part of the Indian Subcontinent.1
Description
Damalops was a large sized alcelaphine, with an adult weight weighing between 125–342 kilograms (276–754 lb).2
References
References
- Vrba, E. S. (1979). "Phylogenetic analysis and classification of fossil and recent Alcelaphini Mammalia: Bovidae". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 11 (3): 207–228. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1979.tb00035.x.
- Dennell, R. W.; Coard, R.; Turner, A. (December 2008). "Predators and scavengers in Early Pleistocene southern Asia". Quaternary International. 192 (1): 82. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2007.06.023.