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