Bos palaesondaicus
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Bos palaesondaicus Temporal range: |
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| Bos palaesondaicus skull at Naturalis. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bos |
| Species: | †B. palaesondaicus |
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Bos palaesondaicus (Dubois, 1908) |
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Bibos palaesondaicus Dubois, 1908 |
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Bibos palaesondaicus Dubois, 1908
Bos palaesondaicus occurred on Java (Indonesia) and belongs to the Bovinae subfamily. It has been described by the Dutch paleoanthropologist Eugène Dubois in 1908. The holotype of Bos palaesondaicus is a skull from Trinil. This species is the likely ancestor to the banteng (Bos javanicus).
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