Bison, Hamilton Smith, 1827
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Specimen. Damaged, left M2 (JSJ.Bx/1).
Remarks. The examined tooth belonged to an adult, in its prime, with its crown worn to the extent suggesting an age between 5 and 7 years. The morphology of molars of both large bovines, the genera Bos and Bison , is very similar. According to Prat (1987), the main difference between them is the presence of a small enamel islet, situated in the central crown part, in the genus Bison (also in Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 ). Contrary to that, Sala (1986) found this structure in the genus Bos , but not in the genus Bison . Moreover, morphometrically the M2 from Solna Jama fits almost exactly within the range of Bos taurus from medieval Polish sites ( Chrzanowska, 1975, 1985) and is narrower than M2 of Bison bonasus ( Linnaeus, 1758) or Bos primigenius Bojanus, 1827 ( Brudnicki et al., 2011). For these reasons the examined specimen was classified only as an undetermined large bovid.
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Brudnicki, W., Brudnicki, A., Kirkillo-Stacewicz, K., Grzywacz, K., Nowicki, W., Skoczylas, B., and Wach, J. 2011. The characteristics of the cheel teeth in auroch Bos primigenius Bojanus (1827) from the Tuchola Forest. Electronic Journal of Polish Agricultural Universities, Series Veterinary Medicine, 14 (4): 1 - 10.
Chrzanowska, W. 1975. Fosylne i subfosylne szczatki kostne zwierzat z Jaskini Zamkowej Dolnej w Olsztynie k. Czestochowy. Zeszyty Naukowe Akademii Rolniczej we Wroclawiu. Weterynaria, 32 (107): 185 - 194. (In Polish)
Chrzanowska, W. 1985. Dzikie ssaki Slaska w pradziejach w swietle kostnych materialow wykopaliskowych, p. 21 - 32. In Wyrost, P. (ed.), Dawna fauna Slaska w swietle badan archeologicznych. Ossolineum, Wroclaw. (In Polish)
Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Salvius Impensis Direct, Holmiae. (In Latin)
Prat, F. 1987. Podstawy oznaczania szczatkow waZniejszych ssakow plejstocenskich. Skrypty Uczelniane. Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow. (In Polish)
Sala, B. 1986. Bison schoetensacki Freud. from Isernia la Pineta (early Mid-Pleistocene, Italy) and revision of the European species of bison. Paleontographica Italica, 74: 113 - 170.
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