Bubalus fudi

Bubalus fudi is an extinct relative of water buffalo, which survived in the late Pleistocene.

Bubalus fudi
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Genus: Bubalus
Species:
†B. fudi
Binomial name
†Bubalus fudi
Guo, 2008

Discovery

The fossil of Bubalus fudi was discovered by a company (Beijing Fudi Investment Co., Ltd) in 2002 while digging the foundations of a building near Haidian District Qinghe railway station. It was a complete skull fossil and published by researchers in 2008 as a new species. Researchers use the company's name (Fudi) as the specific epithet of the species. The holotype was collected by the company. Researchers think that the appearance of species is close to Bubalus youngi. The horns are both strong and there are no obvious back bump on the skull occipital bone, but the occipital bone position is higher than Bubalus youngi. The results of the analysis of phylogenetics based on skull characteristics showed that Bubalus fudi was a sister group of Bubalus youngi, Bubalus triangulus and the clade of the living bubalus, while the clade of the four was the sister group of Bubalus wansijocki.[1]

In 2014, some scholars proposed that Bubalus fudi should be regarded as a subspecies of Bubalus wansijocki.[2]

See also

Below are other water buffalo fossils unearthed in China:[3]

  • B. teilhardi
  • B. youngi
  • B. wansijocki
  • B. tingi
  • B. guzhenensis
  • B. mephistophele
  • B. brevicornis
  • B. triangulus

References
  1. "记北京郊区发现的化石水牛一新种兼论中国化石水牛的系统关系.pdf". max.book118.com. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  2. Dong, Wei; Liu, Jin-yi; Zhang, Li-min; Xu, Qin-qi (2014-12-15). "The Early Pleistocene water buffalo associated with Gigantopithecus from Chongzuo in southern China". Quaternary International. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Gigantopithecus Fauna and Quaternary Biostratigraphy in East Asia. 354: 86–93. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.054. ISSN 1040-6182.
  3. 同号文、陈曦、王晓敏 (2015). "北京平原地区水牛化石新材料:时代与环境问题". 第四纪研究. 35 (3): 561-572. doi:10.11928/j.issn.1001-7410.2015.03.08.
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