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1 October 2016 First Complete Skull of a Late Pleistocene Steppe Bison (Bison priscus) in the Iberian Peninsula
Jone Castaños, Pedro Castaños, Xabier Murelaga
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Abstract

The Kiputz IX site has provided one of the best-preserved late Pleistocene bison populations in the southern Pyrenees and has yielded the first almost complete skull of a steppe bison (Bison priscus) in the Iberian Peninsula. This Bison priscus skull is compared on morphological and osteometric grounds with other specimens of steppe bison from Europe and North America. The skull from Kiputz IX falls within the range of the extinct subspecies Bison priscus mediator. Available data support the evidence of three chronological subspecies of Bison priscus (Bison priscus gigas, Bison priscus priscus, and Bison priscus mediator) during the Middle and late Pleistocene.

Jone Castaños, Pedro Castaños, and Xabier Murelaga "First Complete Skull of a Late Pleistocene Steppe Bison (Bison priscus) in the Iberian Peninsula," Ameghiniana 53(5), 543-551, (1 October 2016). https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.03.06.2016.2995
Received: 4 March 2016; Accepted: 1 June 2016; Published: 1 October 2016
KEYWORDS
Basque Country
Bisonte estepario
Cráneo
Estadio Isotópico Marino 2
Marine Isotope Stage 2
Norte de España
northern Spain
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