Syncerus acoelotus
Syncerus acoelotus Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Bovinae |
Genus: | Syncerus |
Species: | †S. acoelotus
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Binomial name | |
†Syncerus acoelotus (Gentry, 1985)[1]
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Syncerus acoelotus is an extinct species of bovid closely related to the Cape buffalo. It lived during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene.[2]
Fossils of this species were first found in the Olduvai gorge back in 1978, and it was described several years later.[3] S. acoelotus was larger, and probably ancestral to, its living relative.
References[]
- ^ "Syncerus acoelotus". Fossilworks.
- ^ Asfaw, Berhane (2008). Homo Erectus Pleistocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. University of California Press. p. 68. ISBN 9780520251205.
- ^ Gentry, A.W.; Gentry, A. (1978). "Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Part 1". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology. 29: 289–446.
Categories:
- Prehistoric bovids
- Pliocene even-toed ungulates
- Pleistocene even-toed ungulates
- Pliocene mammals of Africa
- Pleistocene mammals of Africa
- Prehistoric mammals of Africa
- Prehistoric even-toed ungulate stubs