Bubalus

Bubalus is a genus of Asiatic bovines that was proposed by Charles Hamilton Smith in 1827. Bubalus and Syncerus form the subtribe Bubalina, the true buffaloes.

Bubalus

Da · CC BY 2.5 · 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
water buffaloPBDB
Sits inside
BubalinaPBDB
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 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 3 of 52 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 49 of 52 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 52 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.2–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.5–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.1–957 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

52 occurrences of Bubalus 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

52 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

8 formations

Pinjor — 31.00°N, 76.70°EPinjor — 30.92°N, 76.71°EBabladanga — 23.50°N, 87.00°EYuanmou — 24.87°N, 100.94°EAwidon Mesa — 17.50°N, 121.58°EWalanae — 4.36°S, 120.00°ETanrung — 4.27°S, 120.09°ETrinil — 7.21°S, 112.78°EMiliolite — 21.20°N, 72.11°E

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The named rock units Bubalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bubalus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bubalus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

366 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Bubalus, 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 52 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 content3

Picture of Bubalus

Credit
Da
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Bubalus sp. · MNHN:ZM:AC-1857-19

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hamilton-Smith 1827