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Common Name

Alaskan bison

Specimen Numbers

IMNH 714/40119

Species

Species: alaskensis

Domain: Eukarya Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Superclass: Tetrapoda Class: Mammalia Subclass: Theria Infraclass: Eutheria Order: Artiodactyla Family: Bovidae Subfamily: Bovinae Genus: Bison Species: alaskensis 1362

Elements

Element	Length	Width	Thickness
Cranium	0	0	0

Specimen Elements

City

Pocatello, Idaho USA

Age

Pleistocene to Pleistocene

Collector

Prof. C. W. Greene, Stanford University

Collection

JAW Repository

Sex

Unknown

Is Complete

No

Date Published

8/23/2017

Repository

IMNH Paleontology

Repositing City: Pocatello, Idaho USA

Cause Of Death

Unknown

Elements

Comments

Nicknamed "Stan" or "Stanford specimen". First mentioned in 1899 publication by F.A. Lucas, published or mentioned by Hay (1913, 1927), Frick (1937), Skinner and Kaisen (1947), Hay (1914), McDonald's North American Bison (1981:123) & Pinsof, 1991.