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1. Woolper Creek?, Boone County.—The type of Bison latifrons is usually regarded as having been found at Bigbone Lick, but Leidy (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. VII, p. 372) stated it had been found a dozen miles or more north of Bigbone Lick, in the bed of a creek that enters into the Ohio River. It seems probable that this creek is the one named above.
2. Bigbone Lick, Boone County.—It was at this place that was found the horn-core and attached part of skull which forms the type of Bison antiquus. It was a part of the Jefferson collection and was described by Leidy (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., vol. VI, 1852, p. 117). Richard Lydekker (Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pt. 2, p. 27) wrote that there is in that museum a fragment of a right mandible, probably belonging to Bison latifrons. However, the identification is hardly to be relied on. Shaler (Geol. Surv. Kentucky, n. s., vol. III, p. 197) reported the finding of bones of Bison latifrons, but it is doubtful in what sense he used this name; and he did not indicate how these bones differed from those of other bisons. He probably had in mind B. antiquus. Hence the presence of the species with the widely spread horns at Bigbone Lick is doubtful.
A list of the species of mammals collected at this place will be found on page [403].