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Hello i went fossil hunting in a Oligocene (28 million years old) area in Saudi Arabia that has been visited by scientists and they discovered a new species (saadinius hijazensis) and they also found tusks and bones from the family mamuttidae specifically Gomphotherium. I found many tusk fragments and they all seem to have a oval shape rather than a circular shape when seen from a cross section perspective, after comparing it with other fossil tusks the only species that had a oval cross section tusk was Gomphotherium. The paleo environment was a swamp. what do you think this species is?
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From the album: Some Minnesota ~Fossils
A mammoth tooth found in New Ulm, MN in 1912 during street construction. It is now in the collection at the Brown County Historical Society museum.-
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Hi, This skull (photographed on display at a museum in China) is labeled on Wikimedia Commons as Zygolophodon, but it's unclear what species of Mammutidae it represents. It could be an Asian species of Zygolophodon, or it could be Miomastodon gobiensis or another Asian Miomastodon species. Anyone curious what species the skull represents?
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A new paper on extinct elephants is available at this link: Shi-Qi Wang; Xiao-Xiao Zhang; Chun-Xiao Li, 2020. Reappraisal of Serridentinus gobiensis Osborn & Granger and Miomastodon tongxinensis Chen: the validity of Miomastodon. Vertebrata PalAsiatica in press. doi:10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.200310. It's quite interesting to see Miomastodon resurrected from synonymy with Zygolophodon because given that Zygolophodon aegyptensis is known from early Miocene deposits in Egypt, Miomastodon may have evolved from a population of Zygolophodon in central Asia that evolved bunodont cheek teeth, and then entered North America from East Asia in the middle Miocene.
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