Syncerus acoelotus
| Syncerus acoelotus Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Syncerus |
| Species: | †S. acoelotus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Syncerus acoelotus (Gentry, 1985)[1]
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Syncerus acoelotus is an extinct species of bovid closely related to the Cape buffalo. It lived during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene.[2]
Fossils of this species were first found in the Olduvai gorge back in 1978, and it was described several years later.[3] S. acoelotus was larger than, and probably ancestral to, its living relative.
References[edit]
- ^ "Syncerus acoelotus". Fossilworks.
- ^ Asfaw, Berhane (2008). Homo Erectus Pleistocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. University of California Press. p. 68. ISBN 9780520251205.
- ^ Gentry, A.W.; Gentry, A. (1978). "Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Part 1". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology. 29: 289–446.
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