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.[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]
^Wei, Dong (2014). "The Early Pleistocene water buffalo associated with Gigantopithecus from Chongzuo in southern China". Quaternary International. 354: 86–93. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.054.
^Li, Liu (2005). The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States. Cambridge University Press. p. 60. ISBN9781139441704.
^Jingxing, L. (2013). "Three abrupt climatic events since the Late Pleistocene in the North China Plain". Journal of Palaeogeography. 2 (4): 422–434. doi:10.3724/SP.J.1261.2013.00040.
^Zhisheng, An (2014). Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia: Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution. Springer Netherlands. pp. 277–278. ISBN9789400778177.
