This wolf was found at the site, along with much of his skeleton

A huge Bison antiquus occidentalis skull from the sand plain site

These bones and teeth were unearthed by my wife and I from a peat bog in an urban development site in central Minnesota during the 80's and early 90's. We'd been searching the general area for fossil bison etc. since our first finds in 1972-73 along a small creek which flows near the site. Now the peat bog has been replaced by a series of drainage ponds serving the development.

Along with the Bison remains from the Anoka sand plain site #1, we recovered a few scattered remains of quite a number of other types of animals, including; giant beaver (Castoroides Ohioensis), wolf (Canis lupus ?subspecies), eastern elk (Cervus elaphus canadensis), and others. Fish, mammals, reptiles, birds. Insects, mollusks, and of course, a lot of plant material. We also found man made artifacts and other evidence of human interaction with some of these bison.