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Summary
Description Male & female mastodons, front.jpg |
English:
Mounted male (left) and female
Mammut americanum
skeletons at the new (2019)
University of Michigan Museum of Natural History
, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The male specimen is a cast of the skeleton of the Buesching mastodon (named after its discoverer) that was excavated from a peat bog near Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is thought (based on an unhealed puncture wound on the right side of its skull) to have been killed by a thrust of the tusk of a rival male.
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The female was recovered near Owosso, Michigan. Both sets of fossils date to about 11,000 years ago. The male skeleton is mounted over a replica of a mastodon trackway found at the Brennan mastodon site near Saline, Michigan.
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Camera location | 42° 16′ 43.77″ N, 83° 44′ 03.42″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 42.278825; -83.734283 |
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- ↑ Fisher, D.C. (23 December 2008) "Paleobiology and Extinction of Proboscideans in the Great Lakes Region of North America" in Haynes, G. , ed. American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene , Springer Science & Business Media, p. 61 ISBN : 978-1402087936 . OCLC : 802124489 .