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Species. 



2. Bos latifro7is, (nobis.) 



Broad headed Fossil Ox. 



The specimen, a portion of the skull with a part 

 of one horn attached, is in the Museum of the 

 American Philosophical Society, and is the same 

 figured in Cuvier's Anim. Fossiles, 1st ed, vol. iv. 

 pi. 3. fig. 2. Ann. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. (Ejusdem.) 



Description. This skull differs very little from 

 that of the Aurochs (Bos nrtis, Bodd. Pallas, Cuv.) 

 The forehead is arched, broader than high ; the 

 horns are attached two inches before the line, 

 formed by the union of the facial and occipital 

 surfaces, which latter form an obtuse angle ; the 

 plane of the occiput represents a semicircle ; the 

 horn is twenty-eight inches in circumference at 

 its base. 



Locality. State of Kentucky. Similar fossil 

 skulls have been found in Europe, on the borders 

 of the Rhine, near to Cracovie in Bohemia, &c. 



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