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Steppe bison — Bison priscus

SAGE Museum Deep Time scientific dossier
Artist / Creator
Daderot
Date / Period
Pleistocene · Pleistocene.
Object Type
skull
Medium
unknown_needs_review
About This Object

Geologic period: Pleistocene

Age: Pleistocene.

Feeding: Grazing herbivore.

Evidence: Skulls, skeletons and even mummified remains directly preserve steppe-bison anatomy.

Why it matters: Steppe bison were important members of Ice Age grassland ecosystems and help document migration between Eurasia and North America.

Plain Language Identity: A large Pleistocene bison that ranged widely across northern Eurasia and North America.

What You Are Looking At: A fossil skull of Bison priscus.

Ecosystem: Pleistocene steppe and tundra ecosystems.

Source Urls: https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour/current-exhibits/deep-time-virtual-tour-fossil-list; https://www.si.edu/object/nmnhpaleobiology_3579952

Find Location: Smithsonian material includes Alaska, United States.

Enrichment Method: SAGE curated research pass; title + scientific name + source scene matched; chronology and taxonomy conflicts retained rather than silently corrected; evidence separated from inference

Scientific name: Bison priscus

Evidence / representation: comparative_taxon_visual

Why It Is In This SAGE Exhibit

comparative_taxon_visual

After the Dinosaurs: Mammals, Ice Ages and the World We Inherited.

Provenance
Smithsonian Deep Time source scene: Ice Age Extinction Event: 1
Visual source institution: Wikimedia Commons
Exhibition History
Included in the SAGE Museum Dinosaurs & Deep Time staging exhibit.
Collection & Credit

Media license: CC0

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

Subjects & Themes
Bison priscus Pleistocene skull Ice Age Extinction Event: 1 After the Dinosaurs
ORIGINAL COLLECTION SOURCE

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