Leptobos

Leptobos; Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene 3.5–0.8 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Bovinae
Genus:	†Leptobos; , 1878
Species
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Leptobos is an extinct genus of large bovine, known from the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene of Eurasia, extending from the Iberian Peninsula to northern China.^[1] Species of Leptobos reached a weight up to 320 kg.^[2] Leptobos is considered to be closely related to the insular genus ^[3], and is considered to be ancestral to Bison.^[1] The first appearance of Leptobos in Europe around 3.6-3.5 million years ago is considered to define the beginning of the Villafranchian European faunal stage.^[4] Leptobos became extinct after being replaced by their descendant Bison during the Early Pleistocene, after a period of temporal overlap.^[1] Leptobos syrticus from Libya likely represents another bovine taxon.^[3]

Species[]

Leptobos brevicornis (China)
Leptobos crassus (China)
Leptobos falconeri (Pakistan)
Leptobos stenometopon (France and Italy)
Leptobos merlai (France and Italy)
Leptobos furtivus (France also possibly Italy)
Leptobos etruscus (France, Italy, and Spain)
Leptobos vallisarni (Italy and China)

Leptobos etruscus lower jaw and silhouette

External links[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Sorbelli, Leonardo; Alba, David M.; Cherin, Marco; Moullé, Pierre-Élie; Brugal, Jean-Philip; Madurell-Malapeira, Joan (June 2021). "A review on Bison schoetensacki and its closest relatives through the early-Middle Pleistocene transition: Insights from the Vallparadís Section (NE Iberian Peninsula) and other European localities". Quaternary Science Reviews. 261: 106933. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106933.
^ http://quaternaire.revues.org/index1014.html?file=1 p.140
^ ^a ^b Mead, Jim I.; Jin, Changzhu; Wei, Guangbiao; Sun, Chengkai; Wang, Yuan; Swift, Sandra L.; Zheng, Longting (December 2014). "New data on Leptobos crassus (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) from Renzidong Cave, Early Pleistocene (Nihewanian) of Anhui, China, and an overview of the genus". Quaternary International. 354: 139–146. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.02.019.
^ van Kolfschoten, T. (2013-01-01), Elias, Scott A.; Mock, Cary J. (eds.), "QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHY | Continental Biostratigraphy", Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Second Edition), Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 206–214, ISBN 978-0-444-53642-6, retrieved 2021-10-31

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[:1-1] Sorbelli, Leonardo; Alba, David M.; Cherin, Marco; Moullé, Pierre-Élie; Brugal, Jean-Philip; Madurell-Malapeira, Joan (June 2021). "A review on Bison schoetensacki and its closest relatives through the early-Middle Pleistocene transition: Insights from the Vallparadís Section (NE Iberian Peninsula) and other European localities". Quaternary Science Reviews. 261: 106933. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106933.

[2] ttp://quaternaire.revues.org/index1014.html?file=1 p.140

[:0-3] Mead, Jim I.; Jin, Changzhu; Wei, Guangbiao; Sun, Chengkai; Wang, Yuan; Swift, Sandra L.; Zheng, Longting (December 2014). "New data on Leptobos crassus (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) from Renzidong Cave, Early Pleistocene (Nihewanian) of Anhui, China, and an overview of the genus". Quaternary International. 354: 139–146. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.02.019.

[4] van Kolfschoten, T. (2013-01-01), Elias, Scott A.; Mock, Cary J. (eds.), "QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHY | Continental Biostratigraphy", Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Second Edition), Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 206–214, ISBN 978-0-444-53642-6, retrieved 2021-10-31

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