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Bubalus Fudi
''Bubalus fudi'' is an extinct relative of water buffalo, which survived in the late Pleistocene. Discovery The fossil of ''Bubalus fudi'' was discovered by a company (Beijing Fudi Investment Co., Ltd) in 2002 while digging the foundations of a building near Haidian District Qinghe railway station. It was a complete skull fossil and published by researchers in 2008 as a new species. Researchers use the company's name (Fudi) as the Binomial nomenclature, specific epithet of the species. The holotype was collected by the company. Researchers think that the appearance of species is close to ''Bubalus youngi''. The horns are both strong and there are no obvious back bump on the skull occipital bone, but the occipital bone position is higher than ''Bubalus youngi''. The results of the analysis of phylogenetics based on skull characteristics showed that ''Bubalus fudi'' was a sister group of ''Bubalus youngi'', ''Bubalus triangulus'' and the clade of the living bubalus, while the clad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was finally confirmed in 2009 by the International Union of Geological Sciences, the cutoff of the Pleistocene and the preceding Pliocene was regarded as being 1.806 million years Before Present (BP). Publications from earlier years may use either definition of the period. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period and also with the end of the Paleolithic age used in archaeology. The name is a combination of Ancient Greek grc, label=none, πλεῖστος, pleīstos, most and grc, label=none, καινός, kainós (latinized as ), 'new'. At the end of the preceding Pliocene, the previously isolated North and South American continents were joined by the Isthmus of Panama, causing Great American Interchang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
