Bos

Bos is a genus of bovines, which includes, among others, wild and domestic cattle.

Bos

Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
oxPBDB
Sits inside
BoviniPBDB
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 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 278 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 278 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 278 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 220 of 278 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.4 Mya — about 12 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 38 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 39 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 184 occurrences2.58 Mya – 11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

278 occurrences of Bos 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

278 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

18 formations

Gebel Silsila-YCS — 24.50°N, 33.00°EGabal 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°EUnterer Travertin — 50.95°N, 11.38°EUnterer Travertin — 50.97°N, 11.35°EMatadero Saldungaray — 38.58°S, 61.75°WMatadero Saldungaray — 38.53°S, 62.08°WBabladanga — 23.50°N, 87.00°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.58°ENubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°ELatamne — 35.13°N, 36.75°EBaza — 37.72°N, 2.47°WDursunlu — 38.28°N, 31.91°EBenot Ya'aqov — 33.13°N, 35.62°EOberer Travertin II — 50.97°N, 11.35°EChacra La Blanqueada — 38.58°S, 61.78°WForest Bed — 52.49°N, 1.53°EBeaumont — 29.66°N, 94.09°WPinjor — 32.94°N, 73.97°EMiliolite — 21.20°N, 72.11°E

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The named rock units Bos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 239 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bos and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bos and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,344 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 253 sites for Bos, 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

138 references

Each of the 278 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. 126 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

Credit
Daniel Schwen
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.

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