''Budorcas churcheri'' is an extinct species of

takin The takin (''Budorcas taxicolor''; ), also called cattle chamois or gnu goat, is a large species of ungulate of the subfamily Caprinae found in the eastern Himalayas. It includes four subspecies: the Mishmi takin (''B. t. taxicolor''), the golde ...

that lived in the

Pliocene The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch (geology), epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

. Its remains were found in the

Hadar Formation Hadar or Hadar Formation (also spelled ''Qad daqar'', ''Qadaqar''; Afar "white 'qidi''stream 'daqar'') Jon Kalb ''Adventures in the Bone Trade'' (New York: Copernicus Books, 2001), p. 83 is a paleontological fossil site located in Mille dis ...

. While the living takin is endemic to the region of Tibet, the presence of ''B. churcheri'' in the African continent confirms that genus was far more widespread in the past. The species was named in honor of the distinguished Canadian palaeontologist, C.S. "Rufus" Churcher, by Alan Gentry.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q108414966 Prehistoric Artiodactyla Pliocene Artiodactyla Prehistoric bovids Pliocene mammals of Africa Mammals described in 1996