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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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