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  2. Columbian mammoth - Wikipedia

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    The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) is an extinct species of mammoth that inhabited North America from southern Canada to Costa Rica during the Pleistocene epoch. The Columbian mammoth descended from Eurasian steppe mammoths that colonised North America during the Early Pleistocene around 1.5–1.3 million years ago, and later experienced hybridisation with the woolly mammoth lineage.

  3. 7-foot-long mammoth tusk found in Mississippi creek in rare ...

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    The massive Columbian mammoth, a proboscidean related to modern elephants that lived during the Pleistocene Epoch, could grow to be 15 feet at the shoulder and weigh over 10 tons.

  4. An Amateur Fossil Hunter Struck Gold, Finding a 20,000-Year ...

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    An amateur fossil hunter discovered a 20,000-year-old Columbian mammoth tusk, the first intact find in Mississippi, revealing new insights into the state's prehistoric era.

  5. Amateur fossil hunter uncovers 7ft-long fully intact giant ...

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    An amateur fossil hunter has uncovered a 7 ft-long, fully intact mammoth tusk in a creek near a Mississippi river stream, a world-first discovery that sheds more light on the region’s ecology ...

  6. Dent site - Wikipedia

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    Figgins delegated further exploration of the mammoth remains to museum staff member, Frederick Howarter, who conducted excavations in June and July, 1933, with museum volunteers, trustees, Father Bilgery, and his Regis College students. [2] The Dent site, in Weld County, Colorado, was a mammoth fossil excavation for most of 1932.

  7. List of U.S. state fossils - Wikipedia

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    Woolly mammoth tooth and tusk (state terrestrial fossil) Mammuthus primigenius: 2014 [44] [45] Virginia: Cenozoic: scallop: Chesapecten jeffersonius: 1993 Washington: Pleistocene: Columbian mammoth: Mammuthus columbi: 1998 [46] West Virginia: Late Pleistocene: Jefferson's ground sloth: Megalonyx jeffersonii: 2008 [47] Wisconsin: Silurian ...

  8. He stumbled onto a large tusk in a Mississippi creek. It ...

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    While the massive Columbian mammoth — which weighed over 22,000 pounds (10 tons) and could grow to be over 13 feet (4 meters) tall — lived across North America alongside the mastodon, its diet ...

  9. Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument - Wikipedia

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    Paleontology studies began at Tule Springs in 1933 when the bones of a Columbian mammoth were discovered by quarry workers. [6] Other fossils found at the site include Camelops, ground sloth, dire wolf, Teratornis, Smilodon Fatalis and American lion, and range from 7,000 to 250,000 years old.

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