THE MUSK-OXEN OF NEBRASKA

• Main Author: Barbour, Erwin Hinckley
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1931
• Subjects: Entomology; Geology; Geomorphology; Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Paleobiology; Paleontology; Sedimentology; Arctic; Hastings; Ice Sheet; musk ox; Alaska; walrus*
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/museumbulletin/18; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/museumbulletin/article/1016/viewcontent/TheNSMMuskOxenComplete.pdf

The remains of no less than eight fossil musk-oxen are already known in Nebraska, of which one is preserved in the Museum at Hastings, Nebraska, and seven in the State Museum at Lincoln. This is a large number to be recorded in anyone state. As late as 1891 authors wrote that but two examples of mus...