Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Parent taxon: Bovinae according to A. Hassanin and E. J. P. Douzery 2003
See also Croft et al. 2006, Gentry 2010, Grubb 2001 and Hassanin and Douzery 1999
Sister taxa: Boselaphini, Catoblepas, Duboisea, Platycerabos, Pseudonovibos, Simatherium, Tragelaphini
Subtaxa: Bos Bovina Bubalina Pelorovis Pseudorygini Ugandax
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (4 collections), Argentina (3), Austria (1), Belgium (2), Bulgaria (1), Canada (21: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (16), the Congo-Kinshasa (13), the Czech Republic (1), Djibouti (1), Egypt (40), El Salvador (2), Eritrea (2), Ethiopia (37), France (12), Georgia (3), Germany (17), Greece (21), Hungary (1), India (3), Indonesia (9), Israel (8), Italy (31), Japan (4), Kazakhstan (2), Kenya (79), Kyrgyzstan (1), Madagascar (2), Mexico (15), Mongolia (1), Morocco (8), Namibia (1), the Netherlands (6), Nicaragua (1), Niger (2), North Atlantic (1), Peru (1), the Philippines (3), Portugal (2), Romania (7), the Russian Federation (9), Rwanda (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovakia (1), South Africa (39), Spain (30), Sudan (9), Swaziland (3), Syria (2), Taiwan (1), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (21), Thailand (3), Tunisia (1), Turkey (2), Turkmenistan (2), the United Kingdom (9), United States (158: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (2), Zambia (3)
• Blancan of United States (1: Texas)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (4), Ethiopia (2), India (2), Kenya (5), Malawi (2), South Africa (4), Spain (1)
• Pliocene of Chad (3), Ethiopia (10), Greece (1), India (3), Indonesia (1), Kenya (4), Malawi (3), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (1), Senegal (1), South Africa (7), Uganda (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (2), Kenya (2), South Africa (2), Uganda (6)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (2), South Africa (1), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 762 collections including 873 occurrences