Steppe Wisent
- Steppe Wisent
Taxobox
name = Steppe Bison
image_caption = Horn of "Bison priscus" atNatural History Museum
status = Fossilregnum =
Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Mammal ia
ordo =Artiodactyla
familia =Bovidae
subfamilia =Bovinae
genus = "Bison "
species = "B. priscus"
binomial = "Bison priscus"
binomial_authority = Bojanus,1827 The Steppe Bison or steppe wisent ("Bison priscus") was a
bison found onsteppes throughoutEurope ,Central Asia ,Beringia andNorth America during theQuaternary . It is believed that it evolved somewhere inSouth Asia which would have it appearing at roughly the same time and region as theaurochs with which its descendants are sometimes confused.The steppe wisent became extinct in the late
Pleistocene , as it was replaced in Europe by the modernwisent species and in America by a sequence of species culminating in theAmerican bison .Steppe wisent was over two metres high and resembled the modern bison species. The tips of the horns were a metre apart, the horns themselves being over half a metre long.
Steppe wisent occasionally appear in
cave art .
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