Bubalus wansijocki
{{Short description|Extinct species of bovid}}
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| fossil_range = Late Pleistocene
| image = Bubalus wansijocki NNHM.jpg
| image_caption = Skeleton on display at the National Natural History Museum of China
| extinct = yes
| genus = Bubalus
| species = wansijocki
| authority = Boule & Chardin, 1928{{cite web |title=Bubalus wansijocki |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=162459 |website=Fossilworks}}
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Bubalus wansijocki, often spelled Bubalus wansjocki is an extinct species of water buffalo known from northern China during the Late Pleistocene.
A 2014 study on extinct Chinese buffalo species indicates that the related Bubalus fudi is a subspecies of B. wansijocki.{{cite journal |last1=Wei |first1=Dong |title=The Early Pleistocene water buffalo associated with Gigantopithecus from Chongzuo in southern China |journal=Quaternary International |date=2014 |volume=354 |pages=86–93 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.054}}
Paleoecology
Many of the faunal assemblages associated with Bubalus wansijocki indicate that it lived in a relatively warm and moist environment, with a mixture of grassland, forest and swamp.{{cite book |last1=Li |first1=Liu |title=The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States |date=2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781139441704 |page=60}} However, the period it lived in was associated with a cold environment and other assemblages its remains have been found in show it and other warm-adapted animals together with cold-adapted ones. It is now believed that northern China went through many short, abrupt periods of very warm and very cold climate change during the Late Pleistocene.{{cite journal |last1=Jingxing |first1=L. |title=Three abrupt climatic events since the Late Pleistocene in the North China Plain |journal=Journal of Palaeogeography |date=2013 |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=422–434 |doi=10.3724/SP.J.1261.2013.00040}}{{cite book |last1=Zhisheng |first1=An |title=Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia: Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution |date=2014 |publisher=Springer Netherlands |isbn=9789400778177 |pages=277–278}}
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Category:Fossil taxa described in 1928
Category:Pleistocene Artiodactyla
Category:Pleistocene mammals of Asia
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