Syncerus acoelotus

Syncerus acoelotus; Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Bovinae
Genus:	Syncerus
Species:	†S. acoelotus
Binomial name
	†Syncerus acoelotus; (Gentry, 1985)[1]

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 than, 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.

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[1] "Syncerus acoelotus". Fossilworks.

[2] Asfaw, Berhane (2008). Homo Erectus Pleistocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. University of California Press. p. 68. ISBN 9780520251205.

[3] 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.