Budorcas churcheri

Budorcas churcheri
Temporal range: Pliocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Tribe: Caprini
Genus: Budorcas
Species:
†B. churcheri
Binomial name
†Budorcas churcheri
Gentry, 1996[1]

Budorcas churcheri is an extinct species of takin that lived in the Pliocene of Ethiopia. Its remains were found in the Hadar Formation.[2][3]

While the living takin is endemic to the region of Tibet, the presence of B. churcheri in the African continent confirms that genus was far more widespread in the past.[3]

The species was named in honor of the distinguished Canadian palaeontologist, C.S. "Rufus" Churcher, by Alan Gentry.

References

  1. ^ "Budorcas churcheri". Biolib.
  2. ^ Gentry, A.W. (1996). "A fossil Budorcas (Mammalia, Bovidae) from Africa". Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals: 571–587. doi:10.3138/9781487574154-028. ISBN 9781487574154.
  3. ^ a b Bibi, F.; Vrba, E.; Fack, F. (2012). "A new African fossil caprin and a combined molecular and morphological Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of caprini (Mammalia: Bovidae)". J Evol Biol. 25 (9): 1843–1854. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02572.x. PMID 22816969.