Bos (Bibos)

Lerris de Ligt · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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- 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 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.
14 occurrences of Bos (Bibos) 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
14 occurrences- Miocene19%
- Pliocene3%
- Pleistocene71%
- Holocene7%
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.
Bos (Bibos) and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Bos (Bibos) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
205 taxa- Sus8 sites
- Hystrix6 sites
- Panthera tigris5 sites
- Cervus4 sites
- Felis4 sites
- Macaca4 sites
- Muntiacus muntjak4 sites
- Rhinoceros sinensis4 sites
- Rusa4 sites
- Atherurus3 sites
- Bubalus palaeokerabau3 sites
- Caprinae3 sites
- Cervus unicolor3 sites
- Hippopotamodon3 sites
- Homo erectus3 sites
- Megalovis3 sites
- Pachycrocuta brevirostris3 sites
- Rhinoceros3 sites
- Rhinoceros sondaicus3 sites
- Stegodon trigonocephalus3 sites
- Tapirus indicus3 sites
- Ailuropoda microta2 sites
- Anourosorex2 sites
- Apodemus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Bos (Bibos), 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
7 references- The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications. A study of the terrestrial faunal succession of Sulawesi, Flores and Java, including evidence for early hominid dispersal east of Wallace's Line4
- Summary on the fossil vertebrates in Taiwan (Formosa)4
- Geochronology of Ailuropoda–Stegodon fauna and Gigantopithecus in Guangxi Province, southern China2
- A newly discovered Gigantopithecus fauna from Sanhe Cave, Chongzuo, Guangxi, South China1
- A preliminary study of the early Pleistocene deposits and the mammalian fauna from the Renzi Cave, Fancheng, Anhui, China1
- The faunal remains and worked bone1
- New fossil mammals from the Pliocene of Sze-chuan, China1
Each of the 14 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. 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 (Bibos)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Lerris de Ligt
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBos through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hodgson 1837)