Bison Horn and Memphis Hutch

[FIGGINS DIGGINS]

Jr. and I got to go on one of our long awaited low-water excursions. We go to look for fossils mainly, sometimes find indian artifacts, and seldom will find an embossed hobbleskirt or some older shards of bottles.

Jr. found a nice bison antiquus partial skull with one horn. Been extinct for about 10,000 years according to the experts. I found a few odds and ends dinosaur bones and to my surprise, a complete hutch from Memphis. It looks like its been rolling in the river for its whole life, but I kind of liked it.

I am calling the Hutch the unexpected discovery, since we always expect to find nice fossils and long extinct animal bones whenever we go. The bottles just never seem to fare very well out there, so finding a relatively old one in one piece is very unexpected. Hope you enjoy the pics. I am also gonna include a pic of Jr.'s Mastodon tooth he found a few years ago. I may have already put it up here somewhere, can't remember, but its a good one for sharing just about anytime.

Later!

 

[FIGGINS DIGGINS]

Here's pic of me holding a couple bones we found and the unexpected discovery.

 

[FIGGINS DIGGINS]

this is the mastodon tooth. the enamel is in very good condition and seems like the colors are changing in it every year since he found it. Most of the root is missing, but you can still see some along the gum line. Yep, that is one tooth, about 8 inches long I think.

 

[FIGGINS DIGGINS]

Here is a picture of the bison antiquus with a ruler. Just to give you an idea of the size and the difference between this and the modern bison or buffalo. A modern bison's complete skull with both horns intact would only be a little over half as wide as this half skull and single horn. We haven't found any parts of one yet, that I know of, but there is also an extinct Giant bison which would make Jr.'s bison look like a baby. Hope you enjoyed.

 

[madpaddla]

That is AWESOME. Bottle digging gone wild. Wow. Keep finding more stuff like that. Thanks
Madpaddla

 

[beendiggin]

Very cool.. That tooth is crazy looking.

 

[acls]

Are you finding that stuff around Shelby County?

 

[FloridaDigger]

The Mastadon tooth is worth a pretty penny! I know they sell very well here in Fla. The horn is awesome, ..very cool. Two items you wont find all that often, ...well done..

 

[madman]

hey daniel killer finds ! thats got to be alot better than diggin up copperheads! hmm this winter im gonna look for me some bones and fossils very nice mike

 

[Oklabottles]

up at my father in laws place in southeastern Nebraska they dug up a full mommoth and have found over 500 arrow heads and tomahawks, We find quite a few buffalo skulls around here in Oklahoma but I think they probably are around 200 years old and back my friend find a the whole lower jaw of a mastedon before here in central ok.