REMAINS OF A MASTODON.
A WELL-PRESERVED SPECIMEN IMPORTANT AMERICAN DISCOVERY.
[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] NEW YORK, Nov. 12.
The remains of a mastodon have been found at Valdez. The tusks are 12 feet 5 inches long, and the hair is preserved. It is believed to he the best specimen yet found.
[ln size, form and principal osteologieal characters the Mastodons resembled the elephants. It is by the teeth alone that the two groups are to be distinguished. The range of the genus Mastodon was from the middle of the Miocene period to the end of the Pliocene in the old AVorld, when they became extinct; but in America several species survived until a late Pleistocene period. Remains have been found in Europe, North and South America, and India. The only two of which remains have been found in Great Britain were both from the crags of Norfolk and Suffolk. The range of the genus was thus very extensive, and it has even been supposed to reach to Australia, where no Ungulate mammal has ever been proved to exist, but the evidence is based upon the production of a single molar tooth alleged to have been brought from New South Wales.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3679, 14 November 1912, Page 5
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199REMAINS OF A MASTODON. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3679, 14 November 1912, Page 5
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