Syncerus acoelotus
Extinct species of buffalo
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Syncerus acoelotus is an extinct species of bovid closely related to the Cape buffalo. It lived during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene.[2]
| Syncerus acoelotus Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Syncerus |
| Species: | †S. acoelotus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Syncerus acoelotus Gentry and Gentry, 1978[1] | |
Fossils of this species were first found in the Olduvai Gorge in 1962, and it was described in 1978.[1] S. acoelotus was larger than, and probably ancestral to, its living relative.
