Bos taurus

Bos taurus

Jjron , edited by Fir0002 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
cowPBDB
Sits inside
BosPBDB
Diet
grazer, browserPBDB, for Bovidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At least 762 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 61 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 61 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 29 of 61 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 31 of 61 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 39 occurrences774 ka – 11.7 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

61 occurrences of Bos taurus on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

61 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

4 formations

Gabal Silsila — 24.77°N, 32.95°EGabal Silsila — 24.43°N, 32.95°ENubia — 25.42°N, 30.52°ENubia — 23.00°N, 25.50°EMatadero Saldungaray — 38.58°S, 61.75°WMatadero Saldungaray — 38.53°S, 62.08°WChacra La Blanqueada — 38.58°S, 61.78°W

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The named rock units Bos taurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

433 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Bos taurus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

31 references

Each of the 61 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 19 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Bos taurus

Credit
Jjron , edited by Fir0002
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No repository was searched for a 3D scan: the genus name is too short to search on without matching most of the record.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBos through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758