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17 – FOSSILS MAMMALS

MAMMALS, RECENT, CENOZOIC

In-situ Bonebed Curator Justin Wilkins (has beard) with two staff assistants, Zachary Reid and Anna Whittaker, working in the bonebed at the Mammoth Site & Museum in Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA. This is an active paleontological excavation and research site. The building encloses a prehistoric sinkhole that formed and was slowly filled with sediments during the Pleistocene era. The sedimentary fill of the sinkhole contains the remains of Pleistocene fauna and flora preserved by entrapment and burial within a sinkhole. This site has the greatest concentration of mammoth remains in the world. As of 2016, the remains of 61 mammoths, including 58 North American Columbian and 3 woolly mammoths had been recovered, along with the bones of camels, wolves, and giant short-faced bears. Model releases available for these three staff members. — TAW-3750_The-Mammoth-Site-SD

In-situ Bonebed Curator Justin Wilkins (has beard) with two staff assistants, Zachary Reid and Anna Whittaker, working in the bonebed at the Mammoth Site & Museum in Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA. This is an active paleontological excavation and research site. The building encloses a prehistoric sinkhole that formed and was slowly filled with sediments during the Pleistocene era. The sedimentary fill of the sinkhole contains the remains of Pleistocene fauna and flora preserved by entrapment and burial within a sinkhole. This site has the greatest concentration of mammoth remains in the world. As of 2016, the remains of 61 mammoths, including 58 North American Columbian and 3 woolly mammoths had been recovered, along with the bones of camels, wolves, and giant short-faced bears. Model releases available for these three staff members. — TAW-3751_The-Mammoth-Site-SD

Bonebed at the Mammoth Site & Museum in Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA. This is an active paleontological excavation and research site. The building encloses a prehistoric sinkhole that formed and was slowly filled with sediments during the Pleistocene era. The sedimentary fill of the sinkhole contains the remains of Pleistocene fauna and flora preserved by entrapment and burial within a sinkhole. This site has the greatest concentration of mammoth remains in the world. As of 2016, the remains of 61 mammoths, including 58 North American Columbian and 3 woolly mammoths had been recovered, along with the bones of camels, wolves, and giant short-faced bears. — TAW-3758_The-Mammoth-Site-SD

Fossil of a hedgehog-like mammal, Macrocranion sp., with woolly fur and long back legs. Found in oil shale deposits of Middle Eocene age in Messel, Germany. This specimen measures 15.3cm from its nose to the tip of its tail. On display at Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Thermopolis, Wyoming, USA. Please include "Specimen courtesy of the Wyoming Dinosaur Center" along with credit to the photographer. — TAW-3779_oil-shale-fossil-mammal

Skull of a saber-tooth cat (aka saber-tooth tiger), Smilodon fatalis, an original fossil of Pleistocene age from a tar pit in Talara, Peru. Straight-line measurement from the base of the skull to the tip of it long canine tooth is 14.3 inches; the length of its fully exposed tooth is 10 inches along the curve and 8.8 inches as a straight line measurement from it base to tip. This is part of an associated skeleton that is about 70% complete, the most complete skeleton of an individual Smilodon ever found -- others are composites made from multiple skeletons. This specimen is in the collection of the Black HIlls Institute of Geological Research, photographed with written permission for commercial educational use. Along with credit to the photographer, please include a "specimen courtesy of" credit to the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research. — TAW-3826_saber-tooth-cat-skull_flat

Fossil cave bear skull, Ursus spelaeus, of Pleistocene age, from Romania. The skull is 19.5 inches long. This specimen is in the collection of the Black HIlls Institute of Geological Research, photographed with written permission for commercial educational use. Along with credit to the photographer, please include a "specimen courtesy of" credit to the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research. — TAW-3835_cave-bear-skull-fossil_flat

Fossilized bat, Icaronycteris index, of early Miocene age, a cast of holotype YPM18150, from Fossil Butte Member of the Green River Formation in Wyoming. Exhibit in Visitor's Center, Fossil Butte National Monument, Kemmerer, Wyoming, USA. — TAW-4242_fossil-bat

Fossil skeleton of saber-toothed cat, Dinictis felina, Oligocene Epoch -- 34 to 29 million years ago. Sioux County, Nebraska, USA. Please include specimen-courtesy-of credit to Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Hill City, South Dakota, along with the credit to the photographer. — Fossil skeleton of saber-toothed cat of Oligocene age from Nebraska.

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