Mastodon Humerus

Authors

E. J. Cable, Iowa State Teachers CollegeFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

On May 18, children of Elk Run School located a little to the south and east of Waterloo, were taking a nature study trip when one of the boys discovered a large bone partially submerged in the water of Elk Creek, a tributary of the Cedar River. The location of the discovery was in the south east portion of Section 6, Waterloo Township. The bone had evidently been washed from its original place of interment during the recent floods of the Cedar River. The bone is the humerus of a mastodon which roamed this area during interglacial times. The bone, although considerably weathered on the exposed end, was in a fairly good state of preservation; only one of the condyle processes was missing. It is quite evident from the state of the bone that it has been partially exposed, at least one end of it, for some time, as the exposed part was quite brittle and weathered.

Publication Date

1952

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

59

Issue

1

First Page

231

Last Page

232

Copyright

©1952 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Cable, E. J. (1952) "Mastodon Humerus," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 59(1), 231-232.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol59/iss1/29