Bubalus platyceros Lydekker 1877 (water buffalo)

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae

Synonym: Bubalus sivalensis Rutimeyer 1878

Full reference: R. Lydekker. 1877. Notices of new and other Vertebrata from Indian Tertiary and Secondary rocks. Records of the Geological Survey of India 10(1):30-43

Belongs to Bubalus according to R. Lydekker 1880

See also Croft et al. 2006, Lydekker 1877 and Lydekker 1878

Sister taxa: Bubalus (Anoa), Bubalus (Bubalus), Bubalus brevicornis, Bubalus bubalis, Bubalus cebuensis, Bubalus depressicornis, Bubalus guzhensis, Bubalus mephistopheles, Bubalus mindorensis, Bubalus murrensis, Bubalus palaeindicus, Bubalus palaeokerabau, Bubalus quarlesi, Bubalus teilhardi, Bubalus tingi, Bubalus triangulatus, Bubalus wansijocki, Bubalus youngi

Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser

Distribution: found only at Tarapur (Pliocene of India)

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