Bison alaskensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BisonPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Bison
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Bovidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 81 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 210 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Bison alaskensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
4 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Bison alaskensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bison alaskensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Bison alaskensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
147 taxa- Aenocyon dirus3 sites
- Camelops hesternus3 sites
- Canis latrans3 sites
- Lynx rufus3 sites
- Smilodon fatalis3 sites
- Arctodus simus2 sites
- Castor canadensis2 sites
- Didelphis marsupialis2 sites
- Equus conversidens2 sites
- Erethizon dorsatum2 sites
- Holmesina septentrionalis2 sites
- Mammut americanum2 sites
- Mammuthus columbi2 sites
- Megalonyx jeffersonii2 sites
- Ondatra zibethicus2 sites
- Panthera leo atrox2 sites
- Paramylodon harlani2 sites
- Platygonus2 sites
- Procyon lotor2 sites
- Taxidea taxus2 sites
- Vulpes vulpes2 sites
- Agelaius phoeniceus1 site
- Alligator mississippiensis1 site
- Amnicola1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bison alaskensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
4 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals1
- A Cranium of Bison alaskensis (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Bovidae) and Comments on Fossil Bison Diversity in the American Falls Area, Southeastern Idaho1
- McDonald, 19811
- The Moore Pit local fauna; Pleistocene of Texas1
Each of the 4 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Bison alaskensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bison alaskensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bison alaskensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBison through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rhoads 1897