Bubalus platyceros Lydekker, 1878

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Bubalus jarikasensis Akhtar, 2002

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Asia

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Lydekker, Richard. (1878). Indian Tertiary and Post-Tertiary vertebrate. 3. Crania of Ruminants. Palaeontol. Indica, 10: 88-181.

Other references:

Akhtar, Muhammad. (2002). A new species of buffalo from the Upper Siwaliks of Jarikas, District Mirpur, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. Punjab Univ. J. Zool. 17: 108-114.

Saha, Aatreyee and Bajpai, Sunil. (2023). Fossil endocasts of two Pleistocene bovines (Bovidae, Mammalia) from the Upper Siwaliks of northern India. Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2023.2218396

Siddiq, Muhammad Khaled et al. (2021). Bubalus platyceros (Bovidae: Mammalia) in the Sardhok Pabbi Hills of Pakistan. Pakistan J. Zool., [2021]: 1-9.

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