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mastodon

a relative of the elephant that existed in MIOCENE and PLIOCENE times. It was, in fact, elephant-like and had a short trunk and long tusks.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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On 5 July 1992, while digging a trench for drainage tile in his Warren County cornfield, Larry Shafer encountered teeth and jawbone fragments of the American mastodont (Mammut americanum).
Palaeoecological interpretation of pollen, macrofossils, polygonal fissures, and taphonomy of the Shafer Mastodont Locality, Warren County, Indiana
Intestinal Contents of a late Pleistocene mastodont from mid-continental North America.
Palaeoecology and Development of Peatlands in Indiana
All of the discussants at this yearly forum doubtlessly would agree that the most awesome and important members of the Pleistocene fauna are the mastodonts and mammoths, huge proboscideans (elephant-like beasts) that were the dominant members of the terrestrial community of the time.
Michigan's ice age behemoths: selected papers on mastodonts and mammoths from the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters
Chronology: The most recent dated record is 11,240 [+ or -] 80 ybp (Wilkinson Giant Beaver Locality), and the oldest dated record is 15,540 [+ or -] 70 ybp (Shafer Mastodont Locality).
An illustrated catalogue of macroscopic subfossils from late-Pleistocene and Holocene westland deposits in northern Indiana
When the State Museum was relocated from its former home in the State Education Building, the Cohoes Mastodont was considered too fragile to move.
Old bones
-- Dental remains of the American mastodont are recognized by their relatively thick enamel (6.2 mm on ET 5403), smooth occlusal surface, and the absence of additional enamel plications characteristic of gomphotheres.
A late Pleistocene (Sangamonian) vertebrate fauna from eastern Texas
Comments: Other macroscopic subfossil records from Indiana include Prairie Creek Site, Daviess County (Whitehead & Jackson n.d.); Blueberry Bog, Elkhart County (Swinehart & Parker 2000); Christensen Mastodont Site, Hancock County (Whitehead et al.
Palaeoecology of a Northeast Indiana Wetland harboring remains of the pleistocene giant beaver (Castoroides ohioenis)
Here, I document a supernumerary tooth in the American mastodont (Mammut americanum) based on USNM (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.) 2225 from Pleistocene deposits near Afton, Oklahoma (see Hay, 1924 for locality information).
Paleopathology of a mastodont molar
Johns, Michigan was mastodont excavated by Daniel Fisher and Fisher 1987); or weakened ones could have been killed by human hunters.
The mastodons and mammoths of Michigan
Kapp) provided an update on records of mastodont and mammoth localities (as well as other Pleistocene vertebrates) and, in doing so, posed several questions, including (1) Why were proboscidean sites in the state so abundant for such a short period of time (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), while other vertebrates were apparently so uncommon?
Recent discoveries of fossil vertebrates in the lower Peninsula of Michigan
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