genus Bison


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Noun1.genus Bison - sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo
mammal genus - a genus of mammals
Bovidae, family Bovidae - true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats
bison - any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
American bison, American buffalo, Bison bison, buffalo - large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
aurochs, Bison bonasus, wisent - European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison
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The recovered assemblages comprising 3 upper molars and one lower premolar reflect the morphological features of the genus Bison. The discovered material comes from the late Pliocene continental deposits of the Tatrot village (Tatrot Formation, Upper Siwaliks, northern Pakistan) dated approximately from 3.3 to 2.6 Ma.