Indications of possible sexual dimorphism in the horn cores and certain cranial bone 
components of the insular, endemic ruminant Myotragus balearicus

This paper examines possible indications of sexual dimorphism in the physical structure of the horn cores and certain cranial bone components of the extinct Pleistocene-Holocene ruminant Myotragus balearicus BATE, 1909 from the Cave of Muleta on the Balearic Island of Mallorca. Sexual differentiation in such components as the skull of Myotragus balearicus has been until the present impossible, especially as both male and female have similar horns and head shape, which by normal criteria are identical. The present paper proposes that certain visible structural differences can be seen in the vertical and longitudinal sectioning of horn cores as well as in the reinforcement of certain bones of the skull, as seen in cranial parasagittal sectioning.