| Bubalus wansijocki Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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| Skeleton on display at the National Natural History Museum of China | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bubalus |
| Species: | †B. wansijocki
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| Binomial name | |
| †Bubalus wansijocki Boule & Chardin, 1928[1]
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Bubalus wansijocki, often spelled Bubalus wansjocki is an extinct species of water buffalo known from northern China during the Late Pleistocene.
A 2014 study on extinct Chinese buffalo species indicates that the related Bubalus fudi is a subspecies of B. wansijocki.[2]
Many of the faunal assemblages associated with Bubalus wansijocki indicate that it lived in a relatively warm and moist environment, with a mixture of grassland, forest and swamp.[3] However, the period it lived in was associated with a cold environment and other assemblages its remains have been found in show it and other warm-adapted animals together with cold-adapted ones. It is now believed that northern China went through many short, abrupt periods of very warm and very cold climate change during the Late Pleistocene.[4][5]
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