Bison bison oregonus Bailey, 1932
Oregon bison
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym)
Last record: 1840's?; 1850 (Goodwin & Goodwin, 1973)
Distribution
Oregon, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
BAILEY, 1932, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 45, p. 48.
Other references:
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
FIGGINS, 1933, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 12, no. 4, p. 32
FRICx, 1937, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 69, pp. 578, 593.
Goodwin, Harry A. and Goodwin, J. M. (1973). List of mammals which have become extinct or are possibly extinct since 1600. Int. Union Conserv. Nat. Occas. Pap. 8: 1-20.
Skinner, Morris F. and Kaisen Ove C. (1947). The fossil bison of Alaska and preliminary revision of the genus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 89(3): 123-256, text figures 1-5, plates 8-26, tables 1-25, maps 1-3.
STOCK, 1937, Westways, vol. 29, no. 2, p. 29.
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