Tragoportacini is a

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...

of extinct bovines that first appeared during the

Late Miocene The Late Miocene (also known as Upper Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene epoch (geology), Epoch made up of two faunal stage, stages. The Tortonian and Messinian stages comprise the Late Miocene sub-epoch, which lasted from 11.63 Ma (million ye ...

and persisted into the

Early Pliocene Early may refer to: Places in the United States * Early, Iowa, a city * Early, Texas, a city * Early Branch, a stream in Missouri * Early County, Georgia * Fort Early, Georgia, an early 19th century fort Music * Early B, stage name of Jamaican d ...

Classification

Tragoportacini is a tribe of Bovinae, closely related to

Boselaphini Boselaphini is a tribe (biology), tribe of Bovinae, bovines. It contains only two extant taxon, extant genus, genera, each with a single extant species. Description The Boselaphini or four-horned antelope tribe are the last survivors of a form v ...

, a tribe consisting of the extant

nilgai The nilgai (''Boselaphus tragocamelus'') (, literally meaning "blue cow") is the largest antelope of Asia, and is ubiquitous across the northern Indian subcontinent. It is the sole member of the genus (biology), genus ''Boselaphus'', which was ...

(''Boselaphus tragocamelus'') and four-horned antelope (''Tetracerus quadricornis''). Originally, tragoportacines were classified within Boselaphinae, though in 2009 they were split off into a tribe of their own.Bibi, Faysal, Bukhsianidze, Maia, Gentry, Alan W., Geraads, Denis, Kostopoulos, Dimitris S., and Vrba, Elisabeth S., 2009. The Fossil Record and Evolution of Bovidae: State of the Field. Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 12, Issue 3; 10A: 11p; http://palaeo-electronica.org/2009_3/169/index.html The tribe consists of six genera: '' Austroportax'', ''

Kipsigicerus ''Kipsigicerus'' is an extinct genus of tragoportacin bovid that inhabited East Africa during the Middle Miocene. It was discovered in Fort Ternan, Kenya, and was originally described as a species of ''Protragocerus ''Protragocerus'' is an ex ...

'', '' Miotragocerus'', ''

Protragocerus ''Protragocerus'' is an extinct genus of tragoportacin bovine that inhabited France, India, and Saudi Arabia during the late Serravallian Age (around 13 to 11 million years ago) of the Miocene Epoch. It was named in 1887 by French palaeontologis ...

'', '' Strepsiportax'' and ''

Tragoportax ''Tragoportax'' is an extinct genus of Bovidae, bovid ungulate. It lived from the upper Miocene to the earliest Pliocene, and its fossils have been found in southeastern Europe, parts of Africa, and the Indian subcontinent. ''Tragoportax'' was fo ...

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q126189026 Mammal tribes Bovines Fossil taxa described in 2009