Bovini

The tribe Bovini or wild cattle are medium to massive bovines that are native to Eurasia, North America, and Africa. These include the enigmatic, antelope-like saola, the African and Asiatic buffaloes, and a clade that consists of bison and the wild cattle of the genus Bos. Not only are they the largest members of the subfamily Bovinae, they are the largest species of their family Bovidae. The largest species is the gaur, weighing up to 1,500 kg (3,300 lb).

Bovini

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BovinaePBDB
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 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 987 occurrencesMiocene — about 18 of 987 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 87 of 987 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 791 of 987 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 12 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 15 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 31 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 78 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 162 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 163 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 508 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

987 occurrences of Bovini on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

987 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

84 formations

Koobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 4.29°N, 36.23°EKoobi Fora — 4.26°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 3.77°N, 36.39°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 3.86°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.22°N, 36.43°EKoobi Fora — 3.95°N, 36.42°EKoobi Fora — 3.57°N, 36.33°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.02°EShungura — 5.01°N, 36.01°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.06°ENachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 4.15°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 4.23°N, 35.81°ENachukui — 4.05°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 3.93°N, 35.76°ENachukui — 4.11°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.10°N, 35.77°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EVogel River Series — 3.22°S, 35.01°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.23°S, 36.19°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EOlduvai — 2.97°S, 35.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.42°EGebel Silsila-YCS — 24.50°N, 33.00°EGabal Silsila — 24.77°N, 32.95°EGabal Silsila — 24.43°N, 32.95°EPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.80°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.62°N, 117.93°WWehaietu — 10.73°N, 40.42°EWehaietu — 10.90°N, 40.48°EWehaietu — 10.72°N, 40.50°EWehaietu — 10.32°N, 40.55°EWehaietu — 10.63°N, 40.54°EHumbu — 2.33°S, 35.97°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVarswater — 33.67°S, 18.43°ENkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.58°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EChiwondo — 9.83°S, 34.83°EChiwondo — 10.00°S, 33.92°EChiwondo — 10.05°S, 33.96°EUnterer Travertin — 50.95°N, 11.38°EUnterer Travertin — 50.98°N, 11.31°EAdu-Asa — 10.43°N, 40.42°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EOlorgesailie — 1.57°S, 36.44°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EPlatanochori — 40.57°N, 23.47°EPlatanochori — 40.53°N, 23.37°EPlatanochori — 40.62°N, 23.38°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.46°N, 1.73°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°EFloral — 52.21°N, 106.58°WFloral — 50.80°N, 103.90°WFloral — 52.10°N, 106.70°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°WNubia — 25.42°N, 30.52°ENubia — 23.00°N, 25.50°E

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The named rock units Bovini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 667 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bovini and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bovini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,218 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 836 sites for Bovini, and this reads 240 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

476 references

Each of the 987 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. 464 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 Bovini

Credit
Myrabella
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bovini was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1821