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Encyclopedia > Steppe Wisent
Steppe Wisent
Conservation status: Extinct (6000 BC)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Genus: Bison
Species: priscus
Binomial name
Bison priscus
Bojanus, 1827


The Steppe Wisent (Bison priscus) was a steppe bison found on steppes throughout Europe, Central Asia, Beringia and North America during the Quaternary. It is assumed that they evolved somewhere in South Asia which would have them appearing at roughly the same time and region as the Aurochs with which its decendants are often confused.


The Steppe Wisent became extinct in the Late Pleistocene, as it was replaced in Europe by the Wisent and in America by the Bison.


Steppe Wisent were over two metres high and probably resembled the Bison. 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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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre - Steppe Bison (1100 words)
Probably, steppe bison reached their maximum distribution and numbers during the last (Wisconsinan, about 90,000 to 10,000 years ago) glaciation:they are the typical bison of Yukon and Alaska during that period.
For example, the stomach of a Siberian steppe bison carcass was full of grass, and associated pollen was dominated by grasses, composites, chenopods and crucifers.
I suspect that steppe bison were active in the Dawson area (Nugget Gulch) even earlier, for a similar ring fracture has been identified on a bison upper foreleg (radio-ulna) radiocarbon dated to approximately 31,000 years ago.
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