#TatonkaTuesday - Finally getting around to writing a detailed #LostBones Substack about the Melrose Minnesota site - a peat deposit uncovered during MN I-94's construction in 1967.

The largest skull from the site (left) is SMM P67.1.33. At 89.5 cm (35.24 inches) across its horn cores. In life the span could have been nearly 45 inches with its outer sheaths

Blog post coming soon! If you know of other sites - comment!

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🦬🐘🦥🐪 For #FossilFriday Highway crews in the 1960s uncovered Ice Age megafauna while building Interstate 94 in central Minnesota. Among the finds were the tibia bones of multiple bison — the fifth most common veribrate mammal element I’ve documented in collections across the Midwest. Each bone carries data from ancient herds roaming post-glacial midwestern landscapes.

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🐘🦥🐪 #FossilFriday: Meet the big boy—Bison Skull #147 from the Anoka Sand Plains Cherney Bison Site - found in a paleo-channel running through an ancient peat bog.

Skull #147 is one of the largest specimens out of over 100 – an impressive 94 cm (37 in.) across the horn cores - materials at the site were dated to 7,146 ± 25 years BP.

Now at the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History

🔗 https://www.smmnh.com

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#LostBones #FossilFriday!🦥🐴🐘🐪 In June 1921 at Sagamore Iron Mine near Riverton, MN, workers uncovered a bed of bison bones in a peat deposit. Skulls, vertebrae, ribs, and limb bones were collected and sent to the Smithsonian Institution for study.

Today, the skull shown here remains in Minnesota, displayed at the Crow Wing County Historical Society in Brainerd.

www.crowwinghistory.org

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Ref: O. P. Hay, Proc. U.S. National Mus. v. 63 1923

It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🦣🐪🦥🦫🐴🐟🍃 This beautiful Bison occidentalis skull is housed at the Anoka County Historical Society. Found in a black dirt pit near Andover it was donated in 1977 along with related vertebrae, long bones, pelvis, ribs, shoulder blades, and carpals.

The skull’s horn span across the cores is 75cm, nearly 30 inches!

https://anokacountyhistory.org/

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