''Bubalus wansijocki'' (sometimes misspelled ''Bubalus wansjocki'') is an extinct species of

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, So ...

known from northern

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

during the

Late Pleistocene The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial Age (geology), age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as Upper Pleistocene from a Stratigraphy, stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of ...

. A 2014 study on extinct Chinese buffalo species indicates that the related ''

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 ...

'' is a subspecies of ''B. wansijocki''.

Paleoecology

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. 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.

References

Prehistoric bovids Pleistocene even-toed ungulates Pleistocene mammals of Asia {{paleo-eventoedungulate-stub