by The Editors on June 15, 2007
While excavating at an undisclosed new home construction site Carlsbad workers discovered what is being called the remains of a 100,000 year old Mastodon.
Tom Demere is the paleontologist with the San Diego Natural History Museum. We’re the first people to ever see this specimen. And it hasn’t seen the light of day for at least 100,000 years. It kind of confirms our ideas about the ancient environments here in the coastal plain of Southern California. He says two complete tusks, an upper jaw fragment with three teeth, and vertebrae from one mastodon were found.
That is serious local status.
[Link: KPBS]
by The Editors on April 14, 2008
First it was the Mastodon fossil found at El Camino Real and Canon Road. Now, a second discovery has been made at the new Robertson Ranch development.
Late last month, paleontologists monitoring the excavation of Robertson Ranch, which is being developed for homes, spotted a skeleton of a giant ground sloth as earthmovers were grading. . . “We know we have part of a pelvis, part of a front leg and part of a back leg,” Deméré said of the sloth discovery. “There were two ribs we could see and part of a vertebra. . . . They’d been held together a couple of hundred thousand years by mudstone.”
While this giant sloth roamed the Carlsbadistan area approximately 120,000 to 200,000 years ago, experts believe it was likely not one of Mayor Bud Lewis‘ pets.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on March 6, 2008
The Agua Hedionda Lagoon Discovery Center is displaying the jaw and tusk of a Mastodon that was found in Carlsbad last June (2007).
The ancient mammal’s tusk and jaw bones are on display at the Agua Hedionda Lagoon Discovery Center, at Faraday Avenue and Cannon Road, through July. . . .The fossils are owned by the San Diego Natural History Museum, whose team of paleontologists discovered mastodon bones June 14 when earth movers were grading land for a housing development at El Camino Real and Cannon Road in Carlsbad.
Or maybe you’re not interested in dead elephant bones.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
While excavating at an undisclosed new home construction site Carlsbad workers discovered what is being called the remains of a 100,000 year old Mastodon.
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