Bubalus teilhardi
Bubalus teilhardi is an extinct species of water buffalo that existed during the Middle to Late Pleistocene in North China, East China, and the Penghu Channel of Taiwan. It is included in the Penghu fauna.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BubalusPBDB
- 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 most 118 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Bubalus teilhardi 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Bubalus teilhardi and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Bubalus teilhardi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Alligator sinensis1 site
- Balaenidae1 site
- Balaenopteridae1 site
- Bubalus youngi1 site
- Cervus1 site
- Crocuta1 site
- Dermochelys coriacea1 site
- Elaphurus1 site
- Elaphurus davidianus1 site
- Equus1 site
- Eschrichtius1 site
- Eubalaena1 site
- Globicephala macrorhynchus1 site
- Megaptera novaeangliae1 site
- Nyctereutes procyonoides1 site
- Palaeoloxodon1 site
- Palaeoloxodon naumanni1 site
- Panthera tigris1 site
- Rafetus swinhoei1 site
- Ursus arctos1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bubalus teilhardi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Bubalus teilhardi
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- 氏子
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bubalus teilhardi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBubalus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young 1932