Bubalus wansijocki

Bubalus wansijocki Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
Skeleton on display at the National Natural History Museum of China
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Bovinae
Genus:	Bubalus
Species:	†B. wansijocki
Binomial name
†Bubalus wansijocki Boule & Chardin, 1928 [1]

Bubalus wansijocki, often spelled Bubalus wansjocki, is an extinct species of water buffalo known from northern China during the Late Pleistocene.

A 2014 study on extinct Chinese buffalo species indicates that the related Bubalus fudi is a subspecies of B. wansijocki. ^[2]

Paleoecology

Skeleton of B. wansijocki

Many of the faunal assemblages associated with Bubalus wansijocki indicate that it lived in a relatively warm and moist environment, with a mixture of grassland, forest and swamp. ^[3] However, the period it lived in was associated with a cold environment and other assemblages its remains have been found in show it and other warm-adapted animals together with cold-adapted ones. It is now believed that northern China went through many short, abrupt periods of very warm and very cold climate change during the Late Pleistocene. ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. "Bubalus wansijocki". Fossilworks.
2. Wei, Dong (2014). "The Early Pleistocene water buffalo associated with Gigantopithecus from Chongzuo in southern China". Quaternary International. 354: 86–93. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.054.
3. Li, Liu (2005). The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States. Cambridge University Press. p. 60. ISBN   9781139441704.
4. Jingxing, L. (2013). "Three abrupt climatic events since the Late Pleistocene in the North China Plain". Journal of Palaeogeography. 2 (4): 422–434. doi:10.3724/SP.J.1261.2013.00040.
5. Zhisheng, An (2014). Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia: Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution. Springer Netherlands. pp. 277–278. ISBN   9789400778177.