【摘要】 <正> 1952年10月,前察哈尔省人民政府水利局石匣里水文站,在山西省大同西北60里挖金湾采到相当大的兽类头骨一个。水文站工作同志当即将发现告知中国科学院,同时将标本寄交北京研究,我们对石匣里水文站工作同志重视文物的负责精神深感敬佩。原标本除地点外,并无关于产出层位的野外记录,但经修理研究后证明系一原始“野牛”头骨,时代为上更新世初黄土期,与填充及附着在标本上的黄色土的存在,似相符合。中国黄土期所产的脊椎动物化石,数量与种类都很少,因此这一发现在我国第四纪地层与古生物学研究上,都是有相当重要意义的。更多还原

【Abstract】 Specimen:Greater portion of a skull including the cranial part of thefrontal bones,the complete posterior of the skull,and the basal parts of thehorn core.Cat.No.V715.Horizon and locality:Loessic.30 kilometers northwest of Tatung,Shansi.Comparison and discussion:The specimen belongs to a species of wildox Bos primigenius Bojanus.A comparison of the size of Tatung specimenwith those from Sjara-osso-gol and Europe based on the circumference at thebase of the horn core are given as following:Tatung Sjara-osso-gol Ilford,England Paris BasinCircumf.atthe base of 42.5 41 43-48 47 +horn core(in mm.)The Tatung specimen seems to be more closely comparable with theIlford specimens described by Lydekker in size and the general outlineof the skull roof.Fossils of this species had been reported in China from Sjara-osso-gol,Harbin,and Taiwan,and also known to have occurred in the adjacent terr-itories of Siberia and Korea (Chosen).In China the species is so far knownonly from the upper part of the Loessic formation though it has a much longerhistory in Europe.It yeas already common in the Lower Pleistocene and a fewsurvived into the beginning of the 17th century in Poland.It is interestingto note that the European race of Bos primigenius was repoted to be the forestdwellers.Had this be true,it does throw some new lights on the problem of thedepositional environments of the Chinese loess.更多还原