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A New Longisrostral Mastodon From Cherry County, Nebraska, E. H. Barbour
A New Longisrostral Mastodon From Cherry County, Nebraska, E. H. Barbour
Conservation and Survey Division
During the season of 1914, field work in the fossil regions was pushed less vigorously than usual owing to lack of funds. N evertheless some interesting and valuable material was obtained by the N ebraska Geological Survey, notably the great mandible of a new longirostral mastodon from Cherry County, together with associated tusk and bones.
The mastodon constituting the basis of this paper was found in the exposnres bordering the Snake River in section 33, range 30 west, and township 32 north. The talus slope was strewn with fragments of the tusk and bone of a mastodon. This led the …