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Bootherium

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Bover, Pere; Llamas, Bastien; Thomson, Vicki A.; Pons, Joan; Cooper, Alan; Mitchell, Kieren J. (December 2018). "Molecular resolution to a morphological controversy: The case of North American fossil muskoxen Bootherium and Symbos".
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was physically adapted to a range of less frigid climates, and appears to have been the only species of muskox to have evolved in and remain restricted to the North American continent (the Arctic muskox's range is
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were situated high on the skull, with a downward curve and were fused along the midline of the skull, unlike tundra muskoxen whose horns are separated by a medial groove.
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Campos, Paula F.; Sher, Andrei; Mead, Jim I.; Tikhonov, Alexei; Buckley, Michael; Collins, Matthew; Willerslev, Eske; Gilbert, M. Thomas P. (1 August 2010).
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were estimated to weigh around 423.5 kg (934 lb). Other differences were a thicker skull and considerably longer snout. The horns of
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was formerly thought to be a separate genus, but is now known to be synonymous. Its closest living relative is the
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Abraczinskas, L. M. "Pleistocene proboscidean sites in Michigan: New records and an update on published sites".
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species in North America during the Pleistocene era. Fossils have been documented from as far north as
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was significantly taller and leaner than muskoxen found today in Arctic regions.
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Martin, Paul S. (1999). "War Zones and Game Sinks in Lewis and Clark's West".
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Index

Bootherium bombifrons
Pleistocene
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Bovidae
Caprinae
Ovibovini
Bootherium
Leidy
Binomial name
Harlan

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