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Research

Abstract

Road-making activity, the opening of new gravel pits and drainage ditches, and natural erosion have brought to light an unusually large number of fossil bones. A large ditch near Avoca has yielded an excellent skull of the giant beaver, Castoroides ohioensis, and at the same place a humerus of the great ground sloth Megalonyx. From Wayland comes a perfect tibia of the same kind of sloth and near it was found the crown of an unerupted mastodon molar. A well preserved, but worn down, tooth of the Columbian elephant was found in a gravel pit at Hartley and a part of a tusk at Bellevue. The skull of a large elk bearing a fine pair of antlers was taken from near the base of the Des Moines River bank at Irvington. The skull of a small deer from a gravel pit at Eddyville completes the list. Illustrations.

Publication Date

1922

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

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First Page

129

Last Page

129

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Thomas, A. O. (1922) "Notes on Some Mammalian Remains Reported in Iowa During the Past Year," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 29(1), 129-129.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol29/iss1/26

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Notes on Some Mammalian Remains Reported in Iowa During the Past Year

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