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''Bubalus wansijocki,'' often spelled ''Bubalus wansjocki'' is an extinct species of
Many of the faunal assemblages associated with ''Bubalus wansijocki'' indicate that it lived in a relatively warm and moist environment, with a mixture of grassland, forest and swamp. However, the period it lived in was associated with a cold environment and other assemblages its remains have been found in show it and other warm-adapted animals together with cold-adapted ones. It is now believed that northern China went through many short, abrupt periods of very warm and very cold climate change during the Late Pleistocene.
water buffalo
The water buffalo (''Bubalus bubalis''), also called domestic water buffalo, Asian water buffalo and Asiatic water buffalo, is a large bovid originating in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Today, it is also kept in Italy, the Balkans ...
known from northern China during the Late Pleistocene
The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a Stratigraphy, stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division ...
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A 2014 study on extinct Chinese buffalo species indicates that the related '' Bubalus fudi'' is a subspecies of ''B. wansijocki''.
Paleoecology
Many of the faunal assemblages associated with ''Bubalus wansijocki'' indicate that it lived in a relatively warm and moist environment, with a mixture of grassland, forest and swamp. However, the period it lived in was associated with a cold environment and other assemblages its remains have been found in show it and other warm-adapted animals together with cold-adapted ones. It is now believed that northern China went through many short, abrupt periods of very warm and very cold climate change during the Late Pleistocene.
References
Fossil taxa described in 1928 Bubalus Prehistoric bovids Pleistocene Artiodactyla Pleistocene mammals of Asia {{paleo-eventoedungulate-stub