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Bison antiquus taylori Hay & Cook, 1928 fossil buffalo skeleton (real) from the Upper Pleistocene of Nebraska, USA (public display, Nebraska State Museum of Natural History, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA).

The ancient bison (a.k.a. Ice Age bison) had a slightly larger body & horns compared with the modern American buffalo (Bison bison). Bison antiquus is the inferred ancestral species to modern Bison bison.

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Bovidae

Locality: Scotts Bluff County, western Nebraska, USA
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Source Bison antiquus taylori fossil buffalo (Upper Pleistocene; Scotts Bluff County, western Nebraska, USA) 1
Author James St. John

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