Bison vs cow teeth

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Found some teeth on the gravel bar and I’m 99% sure it’s cow or bison. I remember the stylus is a way to tell but looking it up again there seems to be a lot of mixed information. I’m leaning towards bison with the strong separated stylus. Anybody know what the right answer is?
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Also found a few other goodies. A jaw segment and a radius I think. I know mussel attachment and general robustness are a less reliable way to tell. Seems like it could be bison.
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Thanks for the link on my first few searches, some were claiming the opposite, saying cow stylids were weaker and often fell off.

Cool! Glad to know I’m on to a buffalo. Looked upstream from the gravel bar and found an atlas vertebrae but nothing else

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Some in situ pics for fun

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Found in the slump from a cutbank upstream the white caught my eye, the top had been chewed pretty bad.
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