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#proboscidean β€” Public Fediverse posts

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  1. #lostbones for #FossilFriday! πŸ‚πŸ¦₯🐴🐘πŸͺπŸŸπŸƒ This partial mastodon pelvis was recently donated to the Brown County Historical Society in New Ulm, MN. It was found in 1987 in a gravel pit within the city limits. New Ulm borders the western bank of the glacial River Warren’s river valley, which now contains the Minnesota River.

    browncountyhistorymn.org

    #pleistocene #mammoth #mastodon #paleontology #NewUlm #Minnesota #paleontology #fossils #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #proboscidean #pelvis

  2. It’s #Minnesota #MammothMonday 🦣πŸͺπŸ¦₯πŸ¦«πŸƒ The beautiful mammoth molar below was dredged from a gravel pit near Carver Minnesota.

    The tooth is an upper left molar of a Woolly Mammoth ~11-12,000 years old and is on display at the Carver County Historical Society. Over the same summer in 2001, a second molar and a tusk fragment were also recovered at the same site.

    carvercountyhistoricalsociety.org

    #lostbones #pleistocene #proboscidean #mammoth #molar #fossil #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience