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| _Aurochs_Temporal range: Frae early Pleistocene to1627 (wild form) resp. Present (domestic form) | |
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| Moontit skelet o a bull foond in Vig, Denmark, Naitional Museum o Denmark | |
| Conservation status | |
 Extinct (1627) (IUCN 3.1)[1] |
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| Scientific classification |
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| 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 | |
| Leet Bos mauretanicus Thomas, 1881 Bosurus minutus v. D. Malsburg, 1911 Bos namadicus Falconer, 1859 Bos taurus Bos indicus Bos urus |
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.
- ↑ Tikhonov, A. (2008). "Bos primigenius". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2008. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 5 Januar 2008. CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)