Megalotragus
E400412
Megalotragus is an extinct genus of large African antelopes known from Pleistocene fossils and related to modern wildebeest and hartebeest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Megalotragus canonical | 1 |
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
extinct genus
ⓘ
prehistoric antelope ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Bovidae genera ⓘ |
| class | Mammalia ⓘ |
| diet | herbivorous ⓘ |
| evolutionaryRelationship | closely related to modern alcelaphine antelopes ⓘ |
| extinctionStatus | extinct ⓘ |
| family | Bovidae ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Pleistocene epoch ⓘ |
| fossilEvidence |
cranial remains
ⓘ
postcranial remains ⓘ |
| fossilTypeLocality | Africa ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | Africa ⓘ |
| habitat |
open grasslands
ⓘ
savanna environments ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
elongated face
ⓘ
large body size ⓘ specialized limb morphology for running ⓘ |
| hasScientificNameAuthorship | based on fossil description ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
African Pleistocene deposits
ⓘ
fossil record ⓘ |
| lifestyle | terrestrial ⓘ |
| locomotion | cursorial ⓘ |
| order | Artiodactyla ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Alcelaphus
ⓘ
Connochaetes ⓘ hartebeest ⓘ wildebeest ⓘ |
| resembles |
modern hartebeest
ⓘ
modern wildebeest ⓘ |
| subfamily | Alcelaphinae ⓘ |
| taxonRank | genus ⓘ |
| temporalRange |
Pleistocene epoch
ⓘ
surface form:
Pleistocene
|
| trophicLevel | primary consumer ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Megalotragus Description of subject: Megalotragus is an extinct genus of large African antelopes known from Pleistocene fossils and related to modern wildebeest and hartebeest.
Referenced by (1)
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