🐂 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐘🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃Check out this beautiful crusty chunk of bison horncore and skullcap discovered near Barsness Park, Glenwood, Minnesota. This specimen was donated to the Pope County Historical Society in 2020.
@popecountymuseum @PCMuseum #GlenwoodMN #Pleistocene #Bison #Bisonbison #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience
See the link in my profile for more Pleistocene museum specimens and their sorties of discovery and preservation.
#lostbones #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃 In late summer 1988, a Granite Falls, MN couple excavating a refuse pit found a ~8000 year-old bison bone bed on their land. Finding a projectile point in the material led to three seasons of fieldwork, uncovering additional points, flakes, and tools, including a stone biface found in situ with the bison remains.
Some of these bones are now displayed at the Yellow Medicine County Historical Society.
https://open.substack.com/pub/marcusbrandel/p/lost-bones-1?r=18hs48&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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#Pleistocene #LostBones #BisonBison #Bison #Palaeontology #CitizenScience
#LostBones #FossilFriday 🐂 Five bison species are said to have roamed North America: The Eurasian Bison priscus adapted into Bison latifrons, which downsized into Bison antiquus. Later, Bison occidentalis emerged in the Late Pleistocene, leading to today’s Bison bison. Are they all distinct, or was it a gradual shift?
#pleistocene #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #skull
🦌#Minnesota #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃Remnants of deer and bison are common along many Minnesota rivers. Teeth, metacarpals, metatarsals, and some long bones withstand the erosive forces of rivers particularly well.
These specimens were all found during a single kayak trip this field season, along just a two-mile stretch of river in southern Minnesota.
#pleistocene #holocene #bisonbison #whitetail #odocoileusvirginianus #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience
Day 14: Bones
Not entirely bones, but this is a skull of a bison which is given a symbol of plains native.
#indigenous #indigenouspeople #sioux #indigenovember #nativeamerican #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #nativember #bison #bisonbison #buffalo #nativeart #nativeartist #myart #sketchbookapp
It's #LostBones #FossilFriday!🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 Bison hyoid bones are quite rare in the collections I have reviewed. This pair is part of a larger assemblage donated in 2022, including elements from both juvenile and adults.
The bones were all recovered in Wolcott Township by an independent researcher and are currently housed at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault Minnesota.
www.rchistory.org @ricecohs
#pleistocene #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #hyoid #skull
It's #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃
A remarkable find: Two neighbors contributed a total of 100 bison bones, discovered in separate years from the same lowland peat deposit spanning a highway in Walcott County, Minnesota. Notably, one of the collections shows possible signs of butchery.
Both collections are now at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault, Minnesota.
#Pleistocene #humerus #femur #BisonBison #Palaeontology #ShareYourDiscovery #CitizenScience
It’s a #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This juvenile bison mandible was found two feet below the surface near Cannon Lake, just outside Faribault, Minnesota, during excavation for a cabin foundation.
Donated in 2018, it is now housed at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault.
https://rchistory.org
Instagram: @ricecountyhistory
#Pleistocene #BisonBison #mandible #Palaeontology #ShareYourDiscovery #CitizenScience #RiceCounty
#lostbones #FossilFriday #bisonbison #saskatchewan Picked up what I thought was a rock yesterday, in a new field turned up when breaking sod.
I am certain that it's the top of a bison skull from what must have been a huge animal. The drum that it is sitting on in the picture is 2ft diameter and the skull fragment is nearly that wide without the horns.
Can anyone help identify the species or aprx. age of this skull?
It’s a #Minnesota #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This beautiful juvenile bison mandible is estimated to be from an individual around 4 months old. It was found in a sinkhole in Wolcott township by an independent researcher and is currently housed at the Rice County Historical Society in Faribault.
@ricecountyhistory #pleistocene #anokasandplain #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #ricecounty
🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday 🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 In 1975, near Lake Koronis in central MN, a farmer uncovered a spring filled with bison bones while constructing a drainage ditch.
He contacted universities but found no interest. So, he and his family assembled a complete skeleton, which was displayed in a friend's leather shop for years before being acquired by the Paynesville Historical Society, where it resides today.
paynesvillehistorical.org
🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 In 1983 while constructing a reservoir in Sherburne County Minnesota a farmer came across hundreds of jumbled bison bones.
in 1984, due to the nature of the site and the distribution of the bones, Dr. Stanley Lewis of St. Cloud State University concluded that the bison had possibly been washed in during a flood event.
www.stcloudstate.edu/biology
#pleistocene #anokasandplain #bisonbison #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #Minnesota
#lostbones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 This Friday’s specimens are two bison skulls recovered in Itasca County during Scenic Hwy 7 road construction along with many other postcranial skeletal elements.
They are currently on loan from Isacka County to the Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm, Minnesota.
www.itascahistorical.org
www.mndiscoverycenter.com
#pleistocene #bison #occidentalis #paleontology #MinnesotaDiscoveryCenter #paleontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #bisonbison #skull
🐂#lostbones #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 Part one of two (Sam and Tom). The bison skeleton “Samantha” currently housed at the National Buffalo Museum in Jamestown, North Dakota, is from #Minnesota! Sam originated on the Snake River Farm owned by Tom Barthel in Sherburne County, Minnesota.
Sam was assembled by Tom Barthel and first displayed at the Becker, Minn. Public Library.
buffalomuseum.com
#pleistocene #bison #paleontology #NorthDakota #Minnesota #bisonbison #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience
American Bison In Snow Wall Art by #OLenaArt! 📸🌨️ Capturing the beauty of these majestic creatures in their natural habitat.
#BisonAndBuffalo #AnimalPhotography #Artiodactyla #BisonBison #BisonPortrait #SnowyAnimal #WildlifeArt #NaturePhotography #WinterWonderland #Wilderness #NatureLovers #AnimalArt #FineArtPrints #HomeDecorIdeas #WallArt #Snowscape. @ElephantStock
#Minnesota #lostbones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟 Here is a beauty of a Bison occidentalis skull cap from the Golden Valley Historical Society.
It was found “quite deep” in the 1970s during the construction of Interstate 35E in Saint Paul. It measures ~79cm across the horn cores.
www.goldenvalleyhistoricalsociety.org
#Pleistocene #bisonbison #skull #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience
#lostbones for #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟
Here is a nice collection of bison bones from the West Hennepin History Center in Long Lake Minnesota.
The collection was found during road work near Hgwy(s) 169 & 494 in Southern Hennepin County.
#pleistocene #bisonbison #scapula #radius #metacarpal #paleontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #Minnesota
More #lostbones for #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟 I ran across this pair of bison femurs at the West Hennepin History Center in Long Lake Minnesota.
Found during some road work near Hgwy(s) 169 & 494 they were donated in the summer of 2000.
#pleistocene #bisonbison #fossil #paleontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #Minnesota
More #Minnesota #lostbones for #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟 I ran across this large bison skull cap at the Houston Nature Center in Houston, MN.
Found in a local creek in 1958 it measures almost 30 inches across the horn cores.
The nature center also has other #Pleistocene specimens on display as well. The city of Houston sits near the center of the Midwest’s glacial “Driftless” Area.
https://www.houstonnaturecenter.com
#bisonbison #paleontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #mammoth #mastodon
