| Budorcas churcheri Temporal range: Pliocene | |
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Scientific classification 
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| 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 | |
Budorcas churcheri is an extinct species of takin that lived in the Pliocene of Ethiopia. Its remains were found in the Hadar Formation.
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.
The species was named in honor of the distinguished Canadian palaeontologist, C.S. "Rufus" Churcher, by Alan Gentry.
References
- "Budorcas churcheri". Biolib.
- 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.
- ^ 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.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Budorcas churcheri | |