Bos palaesondaicus

Bos palaesondaicus occurred on Pleistocene Java (Indonesia) and belongs to the Bovinae subfamily. It has been described by the Dutch paleoanthropologist Eugène Dubois in 1908.^[1] The holotype of Bos palaesondaicus is a skull from Trinil. This species is the likely ancestor to the banteng (Bos javanicus).^[2][3]

Bos palaesondaicus Temporal range: Pleistocene
Bos palaesondaicus skull at the Bandung Geological Museum.
Partial skull at Naturalis.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Bovinae
Genus:	Bos
Species:	†B. palaesondaicus
Binomial name
†Bos palaesondaicus (Dubois, 1908)
Synonyms
Bibos palaesondaicus Dubois, 1908