Bison occidentalis
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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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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]