Woodland muskox

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Woodland muskox
Fossil range: middle to late Pleistocene[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Caprinae
Genus: Bootherium
Leidy, 1852
Species: B. bombifrons
Binomial name
Bootherium bombifrons
(Harlan, 1825)

The Woodland muskox (Bootherium bombifrons) is an extinct bovid from North America during the Pleistocene.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ McKenna & Bell, 1997, p. 442.

[edit] References

  • McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8

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