THE GEOLOGIST. 
DECEMBER 1862. 
BOS ERONTOSUS. 
By the side of a cast of the large-fronted ox of Scandinavia, in the 
case of fossil Bovidae in the British Museum, is a specimen found in 
BawdsejBog, near Felixstow, in Suffolk, referred to that same species 
— the only example recorded in England, if exhibition in the cases of 
our national institution be a record, for it has been nowhere figured 
or described. 
That the determination of the species is correct there can be little 
doubt, as the specimen was seen and examined by Professor Nilsson 
on his late visit to this country, and the correctness of the determi- 
nation was verified by him. It is to this, one of the most in- 
teresting but least known species, that we now wish to draw atten- 
tion. It is interesting because it was probably a species of higher 
antiquity that lived on to be coaeval with the early human races 
whose relics are found in the deposits of that remarkable border-land 
between the last geological ages of the Prehuman era and the oblite- 
rated first chapters of Human History. 
In the ages which elapsed immediately previous to the deposition 
of the glacial drift, and subsequently to that period, extending down 
even to the modern historical era, seven species of fossil Bovi(]a3 
ranged the pastures of England, as will be more clearly seen in the 
annexed table : — 
Distribution of Bovidae in Great Britain. 
Pliocene 
Fresh- 
water. 
Post- 
pliocene 
Marl. 
Glacial 
Brift. 
Cave 
De- 
posits. 
Histo- 
rical 
Period. 
'Bos giganteus s. antiquus, Ozcen . . . 
X 
Bos primigeuius, Bojatius .... 
X 
? 
\ 
Bos frontosus, Nilsson 
X 
_Bos longifrons, Oicen 
X 
X 
Bison priscus, Owen 
X 
. Bison minor, Owen 
X 
Bubalus moschalus, Owen 
X 
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