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
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.