Aurochs roamed along the SW coast of Andalusia (Spain) during Late Pleistocene

Abstract In the Iberian Peninsula the fossil record of artiodactyls spans over 53 million years. During the Pleistocene, wild cattle species such as Bison and especially Bos became common. In Late Pleistocene, the aurochs (Bos primigenius) was widespread and the only bovine living along the large ri...

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Main Authors: Carlos Neto de Carvalho, Fernando Muñiz, Luis M. Cáceres, Zain Belaústegui, Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal, João Belo, Noel Moreira, Mário Cachão, Pedro P. Cunha, Silvério Figueiredo, José María Galán, Yilu Zhang, Paula Gómez, Antonio Toscano, Francisco Ruiz, Samuel Ramírez-Cruzado, Francisco Giles-Guzmán, Geraldine Finlayson, Stewart Finlayson, Clive Finlayson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14137-6