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Bos palaesondaicus

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Bos palaesondaicus
Bos palaesondaicus skull at Naturalis.
Extinct
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B. palaesondaicus
Binomial name
Bos palaesondaicus
(Dubois, 1908)
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Bibos palaesondaicus Dubois, 1908

Bos palaesondaicus occurred on Pleistocene Java (Indonesia) and belongs to the Bovinae subfamily. It has been described by the Dutch paleoanthropologist Eugène Dubois in 1908[1]. The holotype of Bos palaesondaicus is a skull from Trinil. This species is the likely ancestor to the banteng (Bos javanicus).[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Dubois, E. (1908). Das Geologische Alter der Kendengoder TrinilFauna. Tijdschr. Kon. Ned. Aardr. Gen., ser. 2, vol. 25, pp. 12351270, pl. 39.
  2. ^ Hooijer, D.A. (1958a). Fossil Bovidae from the Malay archipelago and the Punjab, Zoologische Verhandelingen van de Museum Leiden 38:1–112.
  3. ^ Hooijer, D. A. (1958b). Sexual differences in the skull of fossil and recent banteng. Mammalia 22:73-75.