Bison occidentalis
| Bison occidentalis Temporal range: Terminal Pleistocene-Holocene | |
|---|---|
| Bison occidentalis skull at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Bovinae |
| Genus: | Bison |
| Species: | †B. occidentalis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Bison occidentalis Lucas, 1898 | |
Bison occidentalis is an extinct species of bison that lived in North America, from about 11,700 to 5,000 years ago, spanning the end of the Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene.