🐂For #FossilFriday I’m #CountingBones. The bison pelvis is one of the biggest bones in the skeleton — but in the Midwest museum and institutional collections I've visited, it almost never survives whole.

Out of 41 county and city institutions, only 10, all partial.

More: marcusbrandel.substack.com

🐂🐴 #CountingBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐪 The second most common bison element, above molars, across the state of Minnesota is the mandible.
Lost Bones: medium.com/@dbrake40
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#Pleistocene #Bison #Palaeontology #Fossils #CitizenScience #Mandible #LostBones

🐂 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐟️🐘🦥🐴🐪
I'm back out #CountingBones. At the Winnebago Area Museum — bison and horse remains from two Blue Earth sites.

Shout‑out: this museum has been entirely volunteer‑run for 50 years.

🏦Museum: www.winnebagoareamuseum.org
🔄Project: marcusbrandel.substack.com/about