Aurochs

The aurochs (pl. aurochs, or rarely aurochsen, aurochses), cried urus, ure (Bos primigenius) an aw, is an extinct species o muckle wild cattle that inhabitit Europe, Asie, an North Africae. It is the auncestor o domestic cattle. The species survived in Europe till the last recordit aurochs dee'd in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland, in 1627.

Aurochs
Temporal range: Frae early Pleistocene to
1627 (wild form) resp. Present (domestic form)
Moontit skelet o a bull foond in Vig, Denmark, Naitional Museum o Denmark
Conservation status

Extinct  (1627)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kinrick:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Cless:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Faimily:Bovidae
Subfaimily:Bovinae
Genus:Bos
Species:B. primigenius
Binomial name
Bos primigenius
(Bojanus, 1827)
Subspecies

Wild:

  • Bos primigenius primigenius   (Bojanus, 1827)
  • Bos primigenius namadicus   (Falconer, 1859)
  • Bos primigenius africanus   (Thomas, 1881)

domestic:

  • Bos primigenius taurus   (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Bos primigenius indicus   (Linnaeus, 1758)
Distribution o the three subspecies
Synonyms

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