Back بيسون آسيوي Arabic Bisó gegant americà Catalan Bison occidentalis Spanish Bison occidentalis Basque ביזון מערבי HE Bison occidentalis Hungarian Bison occidentalis Dutch Bison occidentalis Ukrainian Bison occidentalis Vietnamese
| Bison occidentalis Temporal range: Terminal Pleistocene-Holocene
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| Bison occidentalis skull at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bison |
| Species: | †B. occidentalis
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| 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]
- ^ Stephen Austin Hall (1972). "Holocene Bison occidentalis from Iowa". Journal of Mammalogy. 53 (3): 604–606. doi:10.2307/1379052. JSTOR 1379052.
- ^ McDonald, J. N. (1981). North American bison: their classification and evolution. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520040023.
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