This skull of Bubalus teilhardi was recovered by a fishery boat during trawling operations in the Penghu Channel between the Penghu Archipelago and the main island of Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait. Bubalus teilhardi had its origin in the Middle Pleistocene of northern China, from where it migrated to Taiwan by way of the land bridge between Taiwan and mainland China during the Glaciation in the Late Pleistocene.