Bos palaesondaicus Temporal range: Pleistocene
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Bos palaesondaicus skull at the Bandung Geological Museum. | |
Partial skull at Naturalis. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Bovinae |
Genus: | Bos |
Species: | †B. palaesondaicus
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Binomial name | |
†Bos palaesondaicus (Dubois, 1908)
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Synonyms | |
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]