Posted on 08/14/2019 8:42:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A 12-year-old playing on the grounds of an Ohio inn made an unusual discovery -- a fossilized tooth from a woolly mammoth or a mastodon.
The Inn at Honey Run in Millersburg said Jackson Hepner, 12, a relative of the inn's owner, spotted the object on the ground in a creek tributary.
His family worked to identify the object, which they suspected of being a tooth from a woolly mammoth or a mastodon, elephant-like creatures from the Ice Age.
The Inn said experts have looked at photos of the tooth and identified it as an upper 3rd molar from a woolly mammoth or a mastodon.
MORE:
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-holmes/boy-discovers-prehistoric-mastodon-tooth-during-family-reunion-at-millersburg-inn
Lots of teeth in that photo!
That is the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth!..............
Tooth Ping!....................
It reminds me of this report about a mastodon skeleton that was found in Johnstown, Ohio, in 1926
https://www.downtownjohnstown.org/johnstown-mastodon.html
One of the most celebrated events of Johnstown’s history took place on August 12, 1926. It was the discovery of a nearly complete mastodon skeleton found by tenant farmer James Bailey on the farm of Friend Butt.
The Johnstown Mastodon is recognized by paleontologists as one of the best mastodon specimens ever recovered. It has been determined that the Johnstown Mastodon is the skeleton of a young male that was about 19 years old when it died.
The location of the mastodon discovery is east of town near the current Johnstown Trailhead and Bike Path entrance. The mastodon was in a six foot deep peat pit. The shallow depression was once a natural pond over which then property owner Friend Butt once skated on when he was a young boy. The peat consisted of logs and spruce or hemlock cones.
In 1926 and 1927 numerous people came to view the excavation of the skeleton. Then a Newark businessman bought the skeleton and subsequently sold it to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where it remains on display today.
Darke Co RR crossing State Rd 49 Sinkhole North of Greenville, one mile due east, farm with major excavations. Sinkhole had an entire train go in 1880s lost. Prehistoric bones abound
And I thought Florida Sinkholes were bad!..................
Mastodon’s were big hotel users.
Friend Butt the farmer?
Amish...................
They don’t come any bigger!..................
Your other right/left!
They is back’ards.
A slightly used one for only $500!!!
Condition: Used
New ones cost considerably more.
Such a deal!!!
3.8 kg!....... 8.38 POUNDS!................
Donkey left, AOC right.
Wait in Ohio. So that means Global Warming has happened in the past. Just how many fires were the cave men burning?
bkmk
3.8 kg!....... 8.38 POUNDS!................
And if you have dental implants Mastodon crowns could be made from a small unseen chunk!
Mastodon teeth, the very best!
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