Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Parent taxon: Bovini according to A. Hassanin and E. J. P. Douzery 1999
Sister taxa: Bos, Bubalina, Pelorovis, Pseudorygini, Ugandax
Subtaxa: Bison
Type: Bos
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
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