Steppe Wisent
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{{Taxobox
| name = Steppe Bison
| image = Horn of Bison priscus.jpg
| image_caption = Horn of ''Bison priscus'' at [[Natural History Museum]]
| status = Fossil
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Mammal]]ia
| ordo = [[Artiodactyla]]
| familia = [[Bovidae]]
| subfamilia = [[Bovinae]]
| genus = ''[[Bison]]''
| species = '''''B. priscus'''''
| binomial = ''Bison priscus''
| binomial_authority = [[Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus|Bojanus]], [[1827]]
}}
The '''Steppe Bison''' or '''steppe wisent''' (''Bison priscus'') was a [[bison]] found on [[steppes]] throughout [[Europe]], [[Central Asia]], [[Beringia]] and [[North America]] during the [[Quaternary]]. It is believed that it evolved somewhere in [[South Asia]] which would have it appearing at roughly the same time and region as the [[aurochs]] with which its descendants are sometimes confused.
The steppe wisent became extinct in the late [[Pleistocene]], as it was replaced in Europe by the modern [[wisent]] species and in America by a sequence of species culminating in the [[American 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]].
[[Category:Bison]]
[[Category:Prehistoric bovids]]
[[Category:Pleistocene extinctions]]
[[Category:Pleistocene mammals]]
[[Category:Prehistoric mammals of North America]]
[[es:Bison priscus]]
[[fr:Bison des steppes]]
[[it:Bison priscus]]
[[hu:Sztyeppei bölény]]
[[nl:Steppenwisent]]
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[[pt:Bisonte-da-estepe]]
[[zh:西伯利亞野牛]]