Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Synonyms: Harlanus Owen 1846, Simobison Hay and Cook 1930, Stelabison Figgins 1933
Parent taxon: Bovina according to A. Hassanin and E. J. P. Douzery 1999
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Alroy 2002, Carroll 1988, Frick 1937, Grubb 2001, Hay 1902, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Leidy 1854, Leidy 1860, Leidy 1873, Lydekker 1878, McDonald 1981, Schultz and Howard 1935 and Wilson 1967
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Bison alaskensis Bison antiquus Bison bison Bison bonasus Bison francisi Bison latifrons Bison palaeosinensis Bison priscus Bison sivalensis Bison sylvestris
Type: Bos bison
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Belgium (2), Canada (21: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Yukon), China (4), the Czech Republic (1), El Salvador (2), France (5), Georgia (3), Germany (16), Greece (11), Hungary (1), Israel (1), Italy (16), Japan (4), Kazakhstan (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mexico (15), Mongolia (1), the Netherlands (3), Nicaragua (1), North Atlantic (1), Romania (7), the Russian Federation (8), Slovakia (1), Spain (8), Syria (1), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (155: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming)
• Blancan of United States (1: Texas)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), Spain (1)
• Pliocene of India (2), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of United States (1: Texas)
Total: 309 collections including 330 occurrences
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