Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Family Bovidae Rank Species | Phylum Chordata Order Artiodactyla Subfamily Bovinae | |
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Similar Bos acutifrons, Megalotragus, Giraffa jumae, Leptobos, Pelorovis | ||
Bos palaesondaicus occurred on Pleistocene Java (Indonesia) and belongs to the Bovinae subfamily. 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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