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Pelorovis
''Pelorovis'' ("prodigious/monstrous sheep") is an extinct genus of African wild cattle which existed during the Pleistocene epoch.Alan Turner & Mauricio Anton: ''Evolving Eden, An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large-Mammal Fauna''. Columbia University Press, New York 2004 (pp. 159-167) The best known species is ''Pelorovis oldowayensis'' from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, from the Early Pleistocene. The species '' "Pelorovis" antiquus'' from the Late Pleistocene-Holocene has since been moved into '' Syncerus'', the same genus as living African buffalo. Taxonomy The genus was first described by Hans Reck in 1928 to house his new species ''P. oldowayensis'', which he described from bones originally found by him in Olduvai Gorge in northern German East Africa (Tanzania) in 1913, the first ever time this famous locality was explored by a palaeontologist. The holotype is a fossil skull and assorted bones kept in Berlin. The species ''P. kaisensis'' was named in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syncerus Antiquus
''Syncerus antiquus'', is an extinct species of bovid from the Pleistocene of Africa. It was one of the largest species in its family, potentially weighing up to . Due to this fact, it is sometimes known as the African giant buffalo. ''Syncerus antiquus'' became extinct at the end of the Late Pleistocene about 12,000 years ago or even during the Holocene, some 4,000 years ago.Ronald M. Nowak: ''Walker's Mammals of the World''. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 Taxonomy ''Syncerus antiquus'' was described by Georges Louis Duvernoy in 1851 from a skull discovered along the Bou Sellam River near the city of Sétif, Algeria. It was found at one meter in depth, when excavating the foundations of a new mill, and subsequently sent to Paris. Duvernoy believed this species to be closely related to the Asian water buffalo ''(Bubalus bubalis)'' and classified it as ''Bubalus antiquus''. Several other fossils of ''S. antiquus'' were described under the names ''Bubalus bainii'' and ''Buba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bos Acutifrons
''Bos acutifrons'' is the most ancient representative of the genus '' Bos'', cattle. Fossils of an individual of ''B. acutifrons'' were found in middle Pleistocene-aged strata of Siwalik Hills of Kashmir, in either modern Pakistan or India, in the 19th century. The prehistoric species was described, along with ''B. planifrons'', by Richard Lydekker in 1878. In 1898 Lydekker synonymised ''B. planifrons'' with ''B. acutifrons'', reconsidering the skull found to be that of a female individual of the same species. Edwin H. Colbert in 1935 first suggested that from this species the modern species of ''Bos'' arose, with the aurochs, ''B. primigenius'', the ancestors of modern taurine cattle, evolving from the Indian Subcontinent via ''B. namadicus'', a smallish prehistoric species of cattle described by Hugh Falconer in 1837 from a fossil recovered in the early 19th century from Narbada (known at the time as Narmada by the British Raj) in central India. ''B. namadicus'' and ''B. pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syncerus
''Syncerus'' is a genus of African bovid that contains the living Cape buffalo ''(Syncerus caffer)'', including the distinct African forest buffalo. At least one extinct species belongs to this genus; ''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. Fossils of this species were first found in the Olduvai gorge The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Go ...''. The extinct giant African buffalo ('' Syncerus antiquus'') is also included in this genus by many authorities. References Mammal genera Mammal genera with one living species Taxa named by Brian Houghton Hodgson Bovines {{eventoedungulate-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the '' Ice age'') is the geological 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 a faunal interchange between the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Bate
Dorothea Minola Alice Bate FGS (8 November 1878 – 13 January 1951), also known as Dorothy Bate, was a Welsh palaeontologist and pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to understanding how and why giant and dwarf forms evolved. Early and family life Born at Napier House, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Bate was the daughter of Police Superintendent Henry Reginald Bate (born in Co. Wexford, Ireland) and his wife Elizabeth Fraser Whitehill. She had an older sister and a younger brother.Bate, Dorothea Minola Alice (1878–1951), palaeontologist by Karolyn Shindler in |
Asian Water Buffalo
The water buffalo (''Bubalus bubalis''), also called the domestic water buffalo or Asian water buffalo, is a large bovid originating in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Today, it is also found in Europe, Australia, North America, South America and some African countries. Two extant types of water buffalo are recognized, based on morphological and behavioural criteria: the river buffalo of the Indian subcontinent and further west to the Balkans, Egypt and Italy and the swamp buffalo, found from Assam in the west through Southeast Asia to the Yangtze valley of China in the east. The wild water buffalo (''Bubalus arnee'') most likely represents the ancestor of the domestic water buffalo. Results of a phylogenetic study indicate that the river-type water buffalo probably originated in western India and was domesticated about 6,300 years ago, whereas the swamp-type originated independently from Mainland Southeast Asia and was domesticated about 3,000 to 7,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algeria
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Sétif
Sétif ( ar, سطيف, ber, Sṭif) is the capital of the Sétif Province in Algeria. It is one of the most important cities of eastern Algeria and the country as a whole, since it is considered the trade capital of the country. It is an inner city, situated in the eastern side of Algeria, at 270 kilometers east of Algiers, at 131 km west of Constantine, in the Hautes Plaines region south of Béjaia and Jijel. The city is at 1,100 meters of altitude. The city was part of Phoenician Empire then it became part of the ancient Berber kingdom of Numidia, the capital of Mauretania Sitifensis under the rule of the Roman Empire. It became a city of the Islamic World after becoming Muslim during the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. It is considered as the starting point of the 8 May 1945 protests and massacre, which was a crucial factor to the start of the Algerian War. Toponymy Sétif was numid before undergoing Roman rule. The name of Sétif is not drawn from Latin, but it is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bou Sellam River
The Bou Sellam River is a river of the Maghreb region in Algeria, in Bordj Bou Arréridj Province. The river flows through the Bou Sellam Valley, and is obstructed by the Ain Zada Dam. Description The basin of Bou Sellam is closed to the north, from the confluence of the river with the Oued Sahel, by Mount Gueldamane. Wadi Bou Sellam descends from the southern slopes of Mount Megris; It is formed of five streams, Wadi Mahouan, Wadi Mohammed el Hannach, oued Ouricia, Wadi Goussimet and Wadi Fermatou, which meet north of Setif. The river then takes the name Oued Bou Sellam; It runs first south-south-west, passes three kilometers west of Setif, and crosses the chain in which it takes its source between djebel Tafat and Guergour. The Oued Bou Sellam receives the wadi Malah, taking its source to Aïn Arnat in the dam Aïn Zada. After crossing the Aïn Zada dam, it crosses the Khelil commune by the east and receives two new tributaries, Wadi Khelil, which flows from the left bank in Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Louis Duvernoy
Georges Louis Duvernoy (6 August 1777, Montbéliard, Doubs – 1 March 1855) was a French zoologist. He assisted Georges Cuvier in writing ''Leçons d'anatomie comparée''. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1847 and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1851. He studied in Stuttgart, Strasbourg, and Paris, and in 1802 was asked by Cuvier (a distant cousin) to help edit his masterpiece on comparative anatomy. From notes and counsel from Cuvier, Duvernoy prepared the last three volumes of ''Leçons d'anatomie comparée'', writings that involved respiration, circulation, digestive organs, et al. In 1805 he returned to Montbéliard, where he worked as a practitioner of medicine. In 1827 he was elected professor to the Faculty of Sciences at Strasbourg, and during the next ten years published a number of treatises on anatomical subjects. After the death of Cuvier in 1832, he worked at arranging his papers for publication. In 1837 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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