Bison occidentalis
Extinct species of mammal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bison occidentalis is an extinct species of bison that lived in North America, from about 11,700 to 5,000 years ago, spanning the end of the Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene.[2]
Quick Facts Bison occidentalis Temporal range: Terminal Pleistocene-Holocene, Scientific classification ...
Bison occidentalis Temporal range: Terminal Pleistocene-Holocene | |
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Bison occidentalis skull at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Bovinae |
Genus: | Bison |
Species: | †B. occidentalis |
Binomial name | |
†Bison occidentalis Lucas, 1898 [1] | |
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