. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . mple had been recordedof a cranium of either Bison priscus or Bos primigeniusin strata containing bones of the Mammoth and Rhino-ceros ; and this statement is repeated in the. posthumousedition of the Ossemens Fossiles, 8vo, 1885. The skullof the Aurochs in the Darmstadt collection, cited by Meyer, and the examples of the Bison priscus fromnewer pliocene freshwater deposits in Kent and Essex,described in the foregoing section, leave no reasonabledoubt that a large Aurochs was the associate of the gi-gantic Pachyderms^ whose representative
. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . mple had been recordedof a cranium of either Bison priscus or Bos primigeniusin strata containing bones of the Mammoth and Rhino-ceros ; and this statement is repeated in the. posthumousedition of the Ossemens Fossiles, 8vo, 1885. The skullof the Aurochs in the Darmstadt collection, cited by Meyer, and the examples of the Bison priscus fromnewer pliocene freshwater deposits in Kent and Essex,described in the foregoing section, leave no reasonabledoubt that a large Aurochs was the associate of the gi-gantic Pachyderms^ whose representatives at the presentday have the Buffaloes for their companions in the tropicalswamps and forests. It is true that species of true Bosare found wild in the warmer parts of Asia ; but no trueAurochs has been discovered Avithin the tropics. Thatthe great Aurochs was associated with a species of Bosof equal size in England during the newer pliocene period,is equally demonstrated by the fossils Avhich form the sub-ject of the present sections. F^V/. Skull of great extinct Ox, Scotland. 508 RUMINANTIA. Fuj. 211. BOVIDJE.
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