Bos primigenius Bojanus 1827 (ox)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae

Belongs to Bos according to E. Tsoukala and A. Lister 1998

See also Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi 1995, Churcher and Peterson 1982 and Gentry 2010

Sister taxa: Bos acutifrons, Bos bubaloides, Bos caffer, Bos chinensis, Bos frontalis, Bos gaurus, Bos grunniens, Bos indicus, Bos javanicus, Bos makapaani, Bos namadicus, Bos palaethiopicus, Bos planifrons, Bos platyrhinus, Bos sauveli, Bos taurus

Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Bulgaria (1 collection), Egypt (27), France (3), Germany (3), Greece (10), Israel (2), Italy (13), Kazakhstan (1), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (3), North Atlantic (1), Portugal (2), Spain (19), Sudan (2), Syria (2), Tunisia (1), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 96 collections each including a single occurrence

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