Bubalus wansijocki

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

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

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

^ "Bubalus wansijocki". Fossilworks.
^ 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.
^ Li, Liu (2005). The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States. Cambridge University Press. p. 60. ISBN 9781139441704.
^ 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.
^ Zhisheng, An (2014). Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia: Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution. Springer Netherlands. pp. 277–278. ISBN 9789400778177.

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[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.

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