Photographs, casts, and actual specimens of the extraordinary skull of the long-jawed mastodon or Tetrabelodon and of the creatures mentioned below may be seen in the Natural History Museum.
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A reconstruction of the extinct American mastodon (Mastodon ohioticus) from a drawing by Prof.
In addition to the above there are several indefinite records ofmastodon remains from the county.
On the Avery marsh, two miles east of Three Oaks, a badly decayedmastodon skull and several teeth were excavated in 1884.
About 1897 the teeth of a mastodon were dug up by a dredge within the village limits of Eau Claire.
Thus it came about that the Haverly Mastodon Minstrels headed the third division of the Garfield inaugural parade.
On it were painted in large gilt letters, "Treasurer, Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels.
I'd have been no more surprised to see a mastodon really walking around out here.
You see, all of them knew about the mastodon bones found in the Big Lick, Kentucky.
Of course, you know that President Jefferson wrote Lewis not to be surprised if he did see the mastodonstill living in this unknown country.
In these gravels are entombed scattered bones of the mastodon and other extinct mammals, but it was long before there appeared any relic of a human frame concerning which there could be no misapprehension.
Mastodon remains have also been found in the beds of the Sivalik hills, and four species of mastodon in all are known to have ranged over India during those periods.
The Mastodon mirificus of Leidy is the earliest known species in America; this occurs in Pliocene deposits on the Niobrara and the Loup fork, west of the Mississippi.
Species of mastodon occur in the Pliocene of La Plata, and of the temperate regions of South America; on the Pampas, and in the Andes of Chili.
The remains of the Mastodon americanus of Cuvier occur abundantly in the Post Pliocene deposits throughout the United States, but more especially in the northern half; they are also found in Canada and Nova Scotia.
In North America, this conjunction of man’s remains with those of the mastodon is very widely spread.
He finds that the deposit at Madisonville clearly belongs to the glacial-terrace epoch, and is underlain by “till,” while in that at Loveland it is known that the bones of the mastodon have been discovered.
The extinct animals found with the tools of man in the caves simply show that such beasts survived to within historic times, as seems everywhere apparent as regards the mastodon when found in America.
There are in reality the fossil remains of both mastodon and mammoth found in America.
This is said to have been “associated in such a manner with the bones of an elephant or mastodon as to leave no doubt of their having been buried at approximately the same time.
Koch represented that he found the remains of a mastodon in Missouri, with the proofs about the relics that the animal had been slain by stone javelins and arrows (St. Louis Acad.
The existence of what is called an elephant or mastodon mound in Grant County has been sometimes taken to point to the age of those extinct animals as that of the erection of the mounds.
The positions of the skeletons have led many to believe that the interval since the mastodon ceased to roam in the Mississippi Valley is not geologically great.
The two genera--Mastodon and Elephant--are connected by species whose teeth are intermediate in pattern.
The grinding teeth of the mastodon had long roots and low crowns crossed by four or five peaked enameled ridges.
Crown of Mastodon Tooth] In the true elephants, which do not appear until near the close of the Tertiary, the lower jaw loses its tusks and the grinding teeth become exceedingly complex in structure.
On the steps of City Hall was a full size replica of a mastodon over whose massive back was draped a banner bearing the slogan: "The Universal Party is for you!
He left the box, walking off into the gathering crowd, and thismastodon seemed to spring into being where the shoebox had been.
At the close of the Tertiary period the mastodon became extinct on the Eastern Continent, but continued in North America to be a companion of man well on toward the close of the Glacial period.
The natives of Siberia represented the mastodon as a great mole burrowing in the earth and casting up ridges of earth--the sight of the sun killed him.
The Mastodon only differed essentially from the Elephant in his dental apparatus.
The Indians of Canada and Louisiana designate the Mastodon by the name of "Father of the Bulls," probably on account of the bones of cattle disinterred with his own.
Professor Woodlouse was requested to add to and extend the tree's name so as to make it suggest the musical quality it possessed--which he did, furnishing the addition Anthem Singer, done into the Mastodon tongue.
Illustration] The monument represents a mastodon head, with various ornaments above and below it, the whole measuring 3.
Above the mastodon head there is a chain, nearly 10 inches deep; the stones forming the links are sculptured and fitted into each other just like the rattles of a rattlesnake; and yet higher another row of stones resembling knots.
The Mastodon smiled and said, "My child, There's a chance for your taste to grow.
Of course, 'twas a sensible thing to do; For Little Peetookle is spared the strain Of the Rollicking Mastodon over in Spain.
The Rollicking Mastodon tripped along, And sang what Mastodons call a song; But every note of it seemed to pain The Rollicking Mastodon over in Spain.
The Rollicking Mastodon said one day, "I feel that I need some air, For a little ozone's a tonic for bones, As well as a gloss for the hair.
The Little Peetookle, his teeth he ground At the Mastodon's singular sense of sound; For he felt it a sort of musical stain On the Rollicking Mastodon over in Spain.
Olympus to become a pasture field for mastodon cows!
The bony remains of the Mastodon are found in America and in Central Europe.
The tusks of the Mastodon have been found to be almost straight, while those of the Mammoth are curved round until they nearly form a circle.
To these should be added the extinct species of the Elephant family, the famous Mammoth of the far north—a carcass of which was found under the ice in Siberia in 1799, and the wonderful Mastodon of Ohio.
By determining the epoch when the mastodon became extinct.
Its remains occur in greatest abundance in North America; and it is interesting to observe that among several of the aboriginal tribes of Red men there were extant traditions of the Mastodon as a living creature.
The Dinothere and the Mastodon wallowed and browsed where great London now crowds its princely palaces.
The question, in the case before us, is not, we must remember, the precise habits and instincts of the Mastodon, but whether the Indians knew anything at all of the Mastodon having ever been a living animal.
Upper Molar of Mastodon arvernensis, viewed from below.
On the other hand, in the short-chinned mastodons, as represented by the Pleistocene North American Mastodon americanus and the Pliocene European M.
Specialized species like Mastodon americanus have completely lost the rudimentary premolars.
Arranging a double line of electric wires in a circle about the mastodon and themselves, they sat down and did justice to the meal, with appetites that might have dismayed the waiting throng.
Why," asked Cortlandt, "if the hunting parties that have been in our vicinity were only beaters, should they have mutilated the mastodon in such it way that he could not walk?
Any time that we are short of mastodon or other good game," said Ayrault, "we need not hunger if we are not above grilled snake.
From the conical projections on the molars," said he, "this should be classed rather as a mastodon than as a mammoth.
C] Mastodon and mammoth bones have been discovered in Europe from the earliest times, and a history of the remarkable theories to which they had given rise before the time of Cuvier is very interesting.
Albert Koch, a collector of curiosities, who in 1839 disinterred the skeleton of a mastodon in a clay bed near the Bourboise River, Gasconade County, Missouri.
John Hunter pronounced the mastodon to be a carnivorous beast.
Tiumin[69], on the river Tura, near the Ural mountains, where the remains of the mastodon were found.
Bones of themastodon have been found in Europe, mixed with menagerie collections, which cannot possibly be attributed to any other origin than that of sports of the amphitheatre.
