Английская Википедия:Bubalus murrensis
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Bubalus murrensis, also known as European water buffalo, is an extinct bovine that lived in Europe during the Pleistocene. Its closest living relatives are the wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee), the tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis), the lowland anoa (Bubalus depressicornis), the mountain anoa (Bubalus quarlesi) and the domestic water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis).[1]
Description
Unlike modern water buffalo, but similar to the extinct Chinese species of Bubalus, the horns have a triangular rather than rounded cross section.[2] A skull found in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) had a width of 107 cm.[3]
Distribution and habitat
The European water buffalo occurred in river valleys. Remains are very rare. The majority of finds have come from along the Rhine, Elbe and Murr in Germany and the Netherlands. Isolated specimens have also been found between the Atlantic coast of France in the west and the central part of the East European Plain in the east (a superbly preserved Allerød-aged skull from Moscow Oblast, near Kolomna).[2][4] It lived in muddy and swampy terrain.[5][6] Bubalus murrensis could not tolerate long-lasting episodes of frost and was therefore absent in Central Europe during the glacial periods. During the interglacial periods like the Eemian it occurred together with other species of the interglacial faunal assemblage, including the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), Merck's rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis), fallow deer (Dama dama), aurochs (Bos primigenius) and the hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius).[7][8][9] Fossils are known from the latest Pleistocene near Kolomna, Russia dating to 12,761 years Before Present, suggesting that the European water buffalo persisted on the Pontic–Caspian steppe during cold glacial periods.[10]
See also
References
- ↑ H. Dieter Schreiber (2004): Finds of Bubalis murrensis (Bovinae, Mammalia) from the Upper Rhine valley: a focus on the complex sedimentological conditions of a Quaternary fluviatile system, 18th International Senckenberg Conference, Weimar
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz/Landessammlung für Naturkunde Rheinland-Pfalz (2009): Jahresbericht des Museums und der Landessammlung 2008. Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen.. Mitteilungen der Rheinischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 30: 52-54. Mainz. (german)
- ↑ Vislobokova, I. A.; Tarasenko, K. K; Lopatin, A. V. (2020). "The first discovery of european water buffalo Bubalus murrensis in the late Pleistocene of the Russian Plain". Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Life Sciences. 491: 125-129 (in Russian).
- ↑ Wighart von Koenigswald: Exoten in der Großtierfauna des letzten Interglazials von Mitteleuropa. Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart 41, 1991, S. 70–84
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