Ugandax Temporal range: Miocene– |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Genus: |
†Ugandax Cooke & Coryndon, 1970 |
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Ugandax is an extinct genus of bovines in the tribe Bovini that lived from the Miocene to the of Africa.Cladistic analyses suggest Ugandax represents an ancestral form of the subfamily Bovinae, and teeth assigned to Ugandax represent the earliest appearance of bovines in Africa.