Indian aurochs
| Indian aurochs | |
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| Indian aurochs skull | |
| Artist's impression | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bos |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | †B. p. namadicus |
| Trinomial name | |
| †Bos primigenius namadicus (Falconer, 1859) | |
| Map of the species' distribution | |
| Synonyms | |
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Bos namadicus | |
The Indian aurochs (Bos primigenius namadicus; Sindhi: انڊين جهنگلي ڏاند) is an extinct subspecies of aurochs that inhabited West Asia and the Indian subcontinent from the Late Pleistocene until its eventual extinction during the South Asian Stone Age. With no remains younger than 3,800 YBP ever recovered, the Indian aurochs was the first of the three aurochs subspecies to become extinct; the Eurasian aurochs (B. p. primigenius) and the North African aurochs (B. p. mauritanicus) persevered longer, with the latter bring known by the Roman Empire, and the former surviving until the mid-17th century in Central Europe.
Two breeds/subspecies of domestic cattle (Bos taurus), the sanga (B. t. africanus) and the zebu (B. t. indicus), can trace their genetic heritage directly to the Indian aurochs.