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Male and female American mastodon (Mammut americanum) skeletons

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English: Mounted male (left) and female Mammut americanum skeletons at the new (2019) University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The male specimen is a cast of the skeleton of the Buesching mastodon (named after its discoverer) that was excavated from a peat bog near Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is thought (based on an unhealed puncture wound on the right side of its skull) to have been killed by a thrust of the tusk of a rival male.[1] The female was recovered near Owosso, Michigan. Both sets of fossils date to about 11,000 years ago. The male skeleton is mounted over a replica of a mastodon trackway found at the Brennan mastodon site near Saline, Michigan.

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  1. Fisher, D.C. (23 December 2008) "Paleobiology and Extinction of Proboscideans in the Great Lakes Region of North America" in Haynes, G. , ed. American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 61 ISBN: 978-1402087936. OCLC: 802124489.

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