Bison occidentalis Lucas, 1898

Western bison

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Stelabison occidentalis Lucas, 1898; Bison antiquus occidentalis Lucas, 1898; Bison bison occidentalis Lucas, 1898; Bison priscus occidentalis Lucas, 1898

Rogers & Martin (1984) suggested that Bison occidentalis was a junior synonym of B. antiquus.

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene

Distribution

North America

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Adair, M. J. (ed.). (1989). Archaeological investigations at the North Cove Site, Harlan County Lake, Harlan County, Nebraska. Kaw Valley Engineering and Development, Inc., Junction City, KS, vi + 1-106.

Adair, M. J., and Brown, K. L. (eds.). (1987). Prehistoric and historic cultural resources of selected sites at Harlan County Lake, Harlan County, Nebraska: test excavations and determination of significance for 28 sites. Kaw Valley Engineering and Development, Inc., Junction City, KS, xiii + 594 pp.

Apland, Brian and Harrington, Charles R. (1994). Pleistocene bison skeleton (Bison bison cf. occidentalis) from Clayhurst Crossing, British Columbia. Géographie physique et Quaternaire 48(2): 213-233. [Abstract]

Bayrock, L. A. (1966). Bison in Alberta. Archaeological Society of Alberta Newsletter 8(Spring): 1-4.

Boeskorov, Gennady G. et al. (In Press, 2016). The Yukagir Bison: The exterior morphology of a complete frozen mummy of the extinct steppe bison, Bison priscus from the early Holocene of northern Yakutia, Russia. Quaternary International. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.084 [Abstract]

Carrillo-López, R. et al. (2023). New records of Bison (Mammalia: Bovidae) from Southern Mexico and some comments on their distribution and biochronology. PalZ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-023-00665-7

Hall, Stephen Austin. (1972). Holocene Bison occidentalis from Iowa. Journal of Mammalogy 53 (3): 604-606. [Abstract]

Hay, Oliver P. (1923). Description of remains of Bison occidentalis from central Minnesota. Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum 2473: 1-8, 2 pls.

R. A. Rogers and L. D. Martin. (1984). The 12 Mile Creek Site: a reinvestigation. American Antiquity 49(4): 757-764.

Trylich, C. and Bayrock, L. A. (1966). Bison occidentalis Lucas found at Taber, Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 3(7): 987-995. [Abstract]

Michael C. Wilson, Leonard V. Hills, Beth Shapiro. (2008). Late Pleistocene northward-dispersing Bison antiquus from the Bighill Creek Formation, Gallelli Gravel Pit, Alberta, Canada, and the fate of Bison occidentalis. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45(7): 827-859. [Abstract]

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.

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