Leptobos

Leptobos is an extinct genus of large bovines, known from the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene of Eurasia, extending from the Iberian Peninsula and Britain to the Indian subcontent and northern China. It is widely posited to be the ancestor of bison.

Leptobos

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BovidaePBDB
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 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 72 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 53 of 72 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 72 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 0.7 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.6–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–4.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.1–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.6 Mya129 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

72 occurrences of Leptobos on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

72 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

9 formations

Gerakarou — 40.68°N, 23.15°EGerakarou — 40.52°N, 23.44°ESanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EVia Cortina d'Ampezzo — 41.90°N, 12.48°EKairubak suite — 38.60°N, 69.11°EPonte Naja — 42.78°N, 12.41°ETatrot — 30.73°N, 76.78°EGuadix — 37.42°N, 3.17°WPlatanochori — 40.53°N, 23.37°ETrinil — 7.21°S, 112.78°E

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The named rock units Leptobos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 61 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptobos and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Leptobos and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

561 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Leptobos, 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

49 references

Each of the 72 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. 37 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 Leptobos

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Leptobos 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itBovidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rutimeyer 1878