Scientific Name: Bubalus teilhardi
Chinese name: 德氏水牛

~~ Introduction ~~
The Bubalus teilhardi Young 1932 was an early water buffalo published jointly by the French geologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Mr. Chung-Chien Young in 1932, and was named after Mr. Teihard de Chardin in the paper to commemorate his contribution to the study of vertebrate paleontology in China . The Bubalus teilhardi was first discovered in site 1 at Beijing 's Zhoukoudian cave system, and subsequently at site 13.
For nearly 20 years there have been records of fishermen retrieving mammalian fossils in the waters near the Penghu Islands of Taiwan and Zhousan Islands in Zhejiang Province , China . Many of them were fossils from the Bubalus teilhardi . Paleontologists hypothesized that these buffalos once lived near Zhoukoudian and the Huaihe River regions. During Pleistocene Period, the sea level decreases, and Taiwan was once connected to the south eastern shores of China . This resulting “land bridge” may have allowed these buffalos to migrate southward to Taiwan .

~~ Age ~~
Pleisocene
 

~~ Classification ~~
Animalia
   Chordata
      Vertebrata
         Mammalia
            Eutheria　
               Ungulata　
                  Artiodactyla
                     Ruminantia
                        Pecora
                           Bovoidea　
                              Bovoinae　
                                 Bubalus teilhardi
 

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