Off topic "Kayaker" update.

[T Witko]

About a year ago I posted some photos of a variety prehistoric skulls, including a Bison latifrons, that Kayaker found while searching nearby river banks. A couple of days ago he came back with another latifrons, plus a Bison anitquus and another very old "What is it?".

I know this is off topic but I thought some may like to see some of this stuff also. None of these pieces had been cleaned when I took the photos. The horn core spread on the latifrons is about 39" and on the antiquus about 27".

I have no idea how to get the photos in the same order I uploaded them in, but you should be able to match the different views.

 

[old digger]

Those are awesome finds. Photo #1, #4, and #5, what did you say they were? They don't look like buffalo, are they camel or elk? The skull looks weird, with the enlongated nose and dip in the frontal brow area. has some similarity to dire wolf (no canine teeth)?

 

[old digger]

I have always wanted to find a Bison Antiquitus skull. And still looking.

 

[T Witko]

Those are awesome finds. Photo #1, #4, and #5, what did you say they were? They don't look like buffalo, are they camel or elk? The skull looks weird, with the enlongated nose and dip in the frontal brow area. has some similarity to dire wolf (no canine teeth)?

Thanks, Kayaker really has a good eye for spotting this kind of stuff.

We don't know what it is. It looks like it would have had canines. There are holes in the jaw line where they would been. We thought maybe dire wolf also, but the examples of dire wolf skulls we've seen are different. I'm pretty sure it isn't elk and I don't think camel had canines.

 

[Wallhangers]

Thanks, Kayaker really has a good eye for spotting this kind of stuff.

We don't know what it is. It looks like it would have had canines. There are holes in the jaw line where they would been. We thought maybe dire wolf also, but the examples of dire wolf skulls we've seen are different. I'm pretty sure it isn't elk and I don't think camel had canines.

Looks like a wild boar or hog skull to me.

 

[T Witko]

Looks like a wild boar or hog skull to me.

but I
Thanks, that's kinda what Kayaker's thinking too. We haven't seen any examples, other then the wild boar, that have these characteristics. (This piece is very old, almost petrified).

 

[leprechaun]

awesome finds.

 

[11KBP]

About a year ago I posted some photos of a variety prehistoric skulls, including a Bison latifrons, that Kayaker found while searching nearby river banks. A couple of days ago he came back with another latifrons, plus a Bison anitquus and another very old "What is it?".

I know this is off topic but I thought some may like to see some of this stuff also. None of these pieces had been cleaned when I took the photos. The horn core spread on the latifrons is about 39" and on the antiquus about 27".

I have no idea how to get the photos in the same order I uploaded them in, but you should be able to match the different views.

Nice finds by Kayaker.

Bison Latifrons had a horn-core spread of 7 to 8 feet. The Kayaker's example is an extinct species but not Latifrons.
I would call the smaller bison skull a very nice Bison Bison, not a Bison Antiquus.

11KBP

 

[flintdigger]

Very interesting, I have found a few Bison teeth but never a skull, that is great.

 

[birdpointgriswold]

I'm leaning towards some sort of horse/baby horse??I'm no expert haha just a guess







Johnathan Griswold