Blue Star Spring is an irregularly-shaped hot spring in the Old Faithful Group of the Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowtone, Wyoming, USA. Its dimensions are about 3.5 by 4.5 meters. A thin projecting ledge of geyserite / siliceous sinter borders the pool. Part of this ledge was broken when a buffalo once stepped on it - buffalo bones are present at the bottom of the spring. Overflow drains from the southeastern corner of the spring and heads ~northeast toward the Firehole River. Blue Star Spring eruptions are rare. Bubbling, vent flaming, and occasional heavy overflow events are known.
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Bison antiquus Leidy, 1853 - fossil buffalo skeleton (real) from the Pleistocene of New Mexico, USA (public display, CM 10192, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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
Stratigraphy: near-uppermost Pleistocene
Locality: near Folsom, northeastern New Mexico, USA
Tags: Bison antiquus Pleistocene buffalo fossil New Mexico
Bison antiquus Leidy, 1853 fossil buffalo skeleton (real) from the Pleistocene of New Mexico, USA (public display, CM 10192, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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
Stratigraphy: near-uppermost Pleistocene
Locality: near Folsom, northeastern New Mexico, USA
Tags: Bison antiquus Pleistocene buffalo fossil New Mexico
Bison antiquus Leidy, 1853 fossil buffalo skeleton (real) from the Pleistocene of New Mexico, USA (public display, CM 10192, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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
Stratigraphy: near-uppermost Pleistocene
Locality: near Folsom, northeastern New Mexico, USA
Tags: Bison antiquus Pleistocene buffalo fossil New Mexico
Bison latifrons Harlan, 1825 - fossil buffalo skeleton from the Pleistocene of North America (public display, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History & Science, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA).
The extinct giant buffalo, Bison latifrons, was remarkable in having horns with a >3 times longer span than the modern American buffalo (Bison bison). The overall body size of the giant buffalo was also considerably larger than modern buffalo.
Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Bovidae
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See info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_latifrons
Tags: Bison latifrons Pleistocene buffalo fossil