Bubalus wansijocki Boule & Chardin, 1928
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Bubalus wansjocki Boule & Chardin, 1928; Buballus wansjocki Boule & Chardin, 1928 [orth. error used by (Dong et al., 1999:130)]
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of B. mephistopheles) (Liang et al., 2026)
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution & Habitat
China
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Boule, M. (1928). Le paléolithique de la Chine. Archives de l’Institut de Paleontologie Humanie 4: 136 pp.
Other references:
Dong, W. and Xu, Q. Q. (1996). Succession of Quaternary large herbivore faunas in Northeast China and its relationship with paleoclimate. Vertebr. Palasiat. 34: 13.
Dong, Wei, Xu, Qinqi, Jin, Changzhu and Liu, Jinyi. (1999). Quaternary herbivore fauna in northeastern China: Evolution under climatic change. Chinese Science Bulletin 44(Suppl.): 129-132.
Dong, Wei and Zhang, Yingqi. (2022). Biochronologic sequences of the Pleistocene mammalian faunas in China and correlations with numeric dating. Quaternary Sciences 42(5): 1227-1246. https://doi.org/10.11928/j.issn.1001-7410.2022.05.01
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Heilongjiang Provincial Cultural Relics Committee and Harbin Cultural Bureau. (1987). Late Paleolithic Camp Site at Yanjiagang. Cultural Relics Press.
Hu, S. M., Liu, L., Yin, S. P. and Chen, X. (2007). Recent buffalo remains unearthed in Shaanxi and the evolution of native buffalo in China. Huaxia Archaeol 3: 11.
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology, Higher Vertebrate Group. (1959). Fossil Mammals of the Quaternary in Northeast China. Science Press.
Jia, L. P., Gai, P. and You, Y. G. (1972). Excavation report of the Shiyu Paleolithic site in Shanxi. Acta Archaeol. Sin. 1: 39-58.
Jiang, H. T., Zhao, K. L., Wang, Y., Zhou, X. Y., Li, X. Q., Ding, J. Y. and Yang, S. (2019). Environmental context of the Late Pleistocene Mammuthus-Coelodonta Fauna in Qinggang area, Heilongjiang Province. Acta Anthropol. Sin. 38: 148-156.
Liang, Xue-Yuan et al. (2026). Ancient mitogenomes reveal the genetic relationship among extinct and extant water buffaloes. iScience 29(7): 116354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.116354
Ma, J., Wang, Y., Baryshnikov, G. F., Drucker, D. G., McGrath, K., Zhang, H., Bocherens, H. and Hu, Y. (2021). The Mammuthus-Coelodonta Faunal Complex at its southeastern limit: A biogeochemical paleoecology investigation in Northeast Asia. Quat. Int. 591: 93-106.
Zhou, M. Z. and Xu, Y. X. (1957). A new species of buffalo fossil from Mengxian, Henan. Acta Palaeontol. Sin. 5: 109-118.