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The finding of vertebrate fossils in Michigan is quite rare, so it is best to turn over any specimens to a university or museum for proper cleaning and documentation. Many of these mastodon fossils are found in Southern Michigan, mostly around Ann Arbor. Most mammoth sites are in Northern Michigan.
Since shark skeletons were cartilaginous and lacked hard parts conducive to fossilization, typically only their spines and teeth remain. Despite occurring so early in the fossil record, Michigan's cladoselachian sharks closely resembled modern forms. Fossil shark spines found in Michigan are usually the remains of ctenacanths and cladodonts.
He also performed the first census of local mammoth remains, noting that 32 Jefferson mammoths had been discovered in Michigan. [4] Hatt also formally described a partial mastodon skull now catalogued as CIPS 827 which had been discovered in Pontiac. [1] Fossils of a Jefferson mammoth were discovered in Gratiot County. [4] 1963
WWMT reports more than 300 mastodon bone sites have been uncovered in Michigan so if you feel like doing a little digging out there, it might work out in your favor. ... around 150 million years ...
March 19, 2018 - Students visit the Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site, where the bones of a mammoth that lived about 17,500 years ago are being unearthed.
Life restorations of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon (right), and a Mammuthus primigenius, or wooly mammoth (left) †Mammuthus primigenius; Meleagris †Meleagris gallopavo; Microtus †Microtus pennsylvanicus †Microtus xanthognathus; Mictomys †Mictomys borealis; Mustela †Mustela richardsonii †Navicula †Navicula graciloides ...
“We were in shock. We were holding a piece of history.”
The Moccasin Bluff site (also designated 20BE8) is an archaeological site located along the Red Bud Trail and the St. Joseph River north of Buchanan, Michigan.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, [1] and has been classified as a multi-component prehistoric site with the major component dating to the Late Woodland/Upper Mississippian period.