Bison schoetensacki schoetensacki (Freudenberg, 1910)

Woodland bison

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Bison schoetensaki (Freudenberg, 1910); Bison schoetensacki (Freudenberg, 1910)

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

North America & Europe

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Brugal, J-P. (1995). Le bison (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) du Pléistocène moyen ancien de Durfort (Gard). Bull Mus Natl Hist Nat. 16: 349-381.

Guérin, C. and Valli, A. M. F. (2000). Le gisement pléistocène supérieur de la grotte de Jaurens à Nespouls, Corrèze: les Bovidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla). Cah Scient Mus Hist Nat Lyon. 1: 7-39.

Mourer-Chauviré, C. (1972). Étude de nouveaux restes de vertébrés provenant de la carrière Fournier à Châtillon-Saint-Jean (Drôme) III - Artiodactyles, chevaux et oiseaux. Bull Ass fr Et quat. 9: 271-305.

Palacio, Pauline et al. (2017). Genome data on the extinct Bison schoetensacki establish it as a sister species of the extant European bison (Bison bonasus). BMC Evolutionary Biology 17: 48.

Sala B. (1986). Bison schoetensacki Freud. from Isernia la Pineta (early Mid-Pleistocene - Italy) and revision of the European species of bison. Palaeontographia Italica 74: 113-170.

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.

Sorbelli, Leonardo et al. (2021). A review on Bison schoetensacki and its closest relatives through the early-Middle Pleistocene transition: Insights from the Vallparadís Section (NE Iberian Peninsula) and other European localities. Quaternary Science Reviews 261: 106933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106933 [Abstract]

Vercoutère C, Guérin C. Les Bovidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) du Pléistocène moyen final de l’aven de Romain-la-Roche (Doubs, France). Rev Paléobiol. 2010;29:655–96.

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