Bubalus wansijocki

Bubalus wansijocki, often spelled Bubalus wansjocki is an extinct species of water buffalo known from northern China during the Late Pleistocene.

Bubalus wansijocki Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
Skeleton on display at the National Natural History Museum of China
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Bovinae
Genus:	Bubalus
Species:	†B. wansijocki
Binomial name
†Bubalus wansijocki Boule & Chardin, 1928[1]

A 2014 study on extinct Chinese buffalo species indicates that the related Bubalus fudi is a subspecies of B. wansijocki.^[2]

Paleoecology

Skeleton of B. wansijocki

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.^[3] 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.^[4][5]