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Bos palaesondaicus
Temporal range: Pleistocene
1280px-Bibos palaesondaicus-Naturalis-PeterMaas
A cast of a Bos palaesondaicus skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Tribe: Bovini
Genus: Bos
Species: B. palaesondaicus
Binomial name
Bos latifrons
Dubois, 1908)
Synonyms
  • Bibos palaesondaicus Dubois, 1908

Bos palaesondaicus is an extinct bovine found in Java (Indonesia) during the Pleistocene. It has been described by the Dutch paleoanthropologist Eugène Dubois in 1908. The holotype of Bos palaesondaicus is a skull from Trinil. This species is the likely ancestor to the banteng (Bos javanicus)

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