Giant Bison Brain Replica
$66.00
The giant bison brain possessed a highly specialized vestibular system that allowed for rapid orientation and balance during high-speed herd charges.
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Description
Giant Bison brain replica measures 8.2 inches. Bison latifrons brain replica is museum-quality polyurethane resin cast. Made in USA.
Giant Bison or Bison latifrons are also known as the long horned bison, is an extinct species of Bison that lived in North America during the Pleistocene epoch.
Extinct species of Bison that lived in Late Pleistocene North America until around 10,000 years ago. It was one of the most common large herbivores on the North American continent during the late Pleistocene, and is a direct ancestor of the living American Bison. Bison latifrons was the largest and heaviest ever to live in North America.
Bison latifrons reached a shoulder height of over 6.6 ft. and may have weighed up to 2,760 lb. The horns measured as great as 84 ins. from tip to tip, compared with only 26 ins. in modern Bison.
A herbivore, Giant Bison is believed to have lived in small family groups, grazing in the Great Plains and browsing in the woodlands of North America.
Paleontologists believe it preferred the warmer climes of what is now the United States, and fossils of the Giant Bison have been found as far south and west as modern-day San Diego, California.
The large, thick horns of the males are believed to have been employed as a visual deterrent to large carnivorous megafauna such as the saber-toothed cat and giant short-faced bear, and also to establish dominance in battle with other males for the right to mate.
In 2014, the National Institute of Anthropology and History found remains of Bison latifrons in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, southern Mexico.
Giant Bison is thought to have evolved in midcontinent North America from B. priscus, another prehistoric species of bison that migrated across the Bering Land Bridge between 240,000 and 220,000 years ago.
Giant Bison was one of many species of North American megafauna that became extinct during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene epoch.
Scientific Classification:
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Artiodactyla
- Family: Bovidae
- Subfamily: Bovinae
- Genus: Bison
- Species: †B. antiquus
- Binomial name: †Bison antiquus
The high metabolic cost of this neural tissue required a massive caloric intake, as evidenced by the high-crowned morphology of a giant bison tooth.
Additional information
| Weight | 4.0 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 8.2 × 4.7 × 6.0 in |
| Time | Lived: About 500,000 years ago to around 20,000-15,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age. Middle to Late Pleistocene Epoch (Ice Age). |
| Range | North America, from Alaska to Mexico. |
| Size | Height: Up to 8 feet (2.4 meters) at the shoulder. Weight: Estimated between 2,750 to 4,400 pounds (over 1 ton to 2 tons). |
