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                         The Space Shuttle in FLORIDA                                                                     FLORIDA's mighty yet fragile Panther

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FLORIDA's Mammuthus columbis elephant was perhaps the largest land animal on earth after the Dinosaurs

Skeletal structure of a Florida 'American' Mastodon (left)

and a Florida 'Columbian' Mammoth (right)

The Columbian Mammoth lived in Northern America (from Alaska, and the Yukon, across the mid-western United States south into Mexico and Central America) during Middle and Late Pleistocene, and they disappeared about 12 thousands years ago. They had short gray hair similar to to a modern elephant. It was possible for the male to be 12 to 14 feet tall and weighing 10 to 12 tons.

           

   

  

    Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbis) molar tooth

Molar tooth from Columbian Mammoth, found by Mr Russell Smolder in St. Johns River, Florida, U.S.A.

   

                MAMMOTH EDUCATION GUIDE.

Treasures-of-the-Earth is located near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA in the Allegheny Mountain Region. Selling a large selection of Fossils, Mineral specimens, Petrified Wood, Fossil Replicas, Cultural Artifacts. They buy direct from many sources around the world and can provide unique and interesting items at a low cost, serving the novice, serious collector, and curator.

Above is authentic partial Mammoth bone dredged from the bottom of the North Sea, with an informative booklet explaining, the Mammoth, how it became fossilized and why it was found at the bottom of the North Sea. Price:  $18.00

    

     

 Free Mammoth Educational Booklet

 

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Welcome to the UCMP Web Lift for Geologic Time!

      

 

  divisions of the geologic

time in detail HERE

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