Syncerus acoelotus

Syncerus acoelotus is an extinct species of bovid closely related to the Cape buffalo. It lived during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene.^[2]

Syncerus acoelotus Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Bovinae
Genus:	Syncerus
Species:	†S. acoelotus
Binomial name
†Syncerus acoelotus Gentry and Gentry, 1978[1]

Fossils of this species were first found in the Olduvai gorge in 1962, and it was described in 1978.^[1] S. acoelotus was larger than, and probably ancestral to, its living relative.