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English: Original distribution of plains bison (Bison bison bison) and wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) in North America, based on available zooarchaeological, paleontological, oral and written historical accounts. Holocene bison (Bison occidentalis) is an earlier form at the origin of B. b. bison and B. b. athabascae.
 
Holocene bison
 
Wood bison
 
Plains bison
Français : Répartition primitive du bison des plaines (Bison bison bison) et du bison des bois (Bison bison athabascae) en Amérique du Nord basée sur des données zooarchaeologiques et paléontologiques ainsi que sur des récits écrits et oraux historiques. Le bison de l'Holocène (Bison occidentalis) est une forme primitive à l'origine de B. b. bison et de B. b. athabascae.
 
Bison de l'Holocène
 
Bison des bois
 
Bison des plaines
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  • North America second level political division 2.svg
  • Wild mammals of North America : biology, management, and conservation. George A Feldhamer; Bruce Carlyle Thompson; Joseph A Chapman. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. (ISBN 9780801874161) (OCLC 51969059)
  • van Zyll de Jong, C. G. 1986. A systematic study of recent bison, with particular consideration of the wood bison (Publications in Natural Sciences No. 6.). National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario. Canada.
  • Stephenson, R. O. et al. 2001. Wood bison in late Holocene Alaska and adjacent Canada: Paleontological, archaeological and historical records. Pages 125-159 in S. C. Gerlach and M. S. Murrya, eds. People and wildlife in northern North America: Essays in honor of R. Dale Guthrie (Brithish Archaeological Reports, International Series 994). Hadrian, Oxford, UK.
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Original distribution of plains bison and wood bison in North America.

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