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Genus Bison
As in Bos, the horn=cores are on a level with the orbits behind, but they come off an inch or more in advance of the inion ; the forehead is broad, quadrate and slightly convex ; it has no trace of lacrymal fossae.
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Bison latifrons Leidy, Smithsonian Con. to K. Vol 5 Art 3 p 8.
Bos latifrons, Harlan. - Fauna Am. p.273. - Carpenter Am. Jour. Sc. 2 d Ser Vol 1 p 245 figs 1. + 2
Forehead arched, broader than high ; horns attached two inches before the line formed by the union of the facial and occipital surfaces, which latter form an obtuse angle; the plane of the occipiit represents a semi= circle
Horns 28 inches in circunference [circumference] at the base. Breadth of forehead, between the bases of the horns 15 inches.
The skull resembles the Aurocch (Bos urus)
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Recent deposites
Near Big Bone Lick, Ky.
{perhaps a different species no Brasos river ^near San Filepe Texas (Carpenter)
Kentucky
(also in Europe?)
Natchez Miss.
Brunswick Canal, Georgia.
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Bison latifrons, Leidy, Smithsonian Cont. to K. vol 5 Art 3 p 8.
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Bison antiquus, Leidy, Proc. Ac. Nat Sc. Vol 6 p 117
Founded upon a portion of the horn = core with a small fragment of the os frontis attached, indicating an animal intermediate in size to the recent Bison Americanus & the B. latifrons. The ^horn = core is more abruptly conoidal, and relatively more curved than in the latter.
Cir. of horn = core at base 14.5
