EXTINCT ANIMALS 



is the American mastodon. The skeleton should 

 be compared with that of the mammoth given 

 in Fig. 62, and with that of the Indian 

 elephant shown in Fig. 69. 



In the United States (Ohio and other localities) 

 very complete remains of this enormous creature 

 have been found in bogs and morasses which 

 are probably not more ancient than the peat 

 bogs of Ireland in which the great Irish stag is 

 found. Man was certainly contemporary with 

 some of the American species of mastodon. 

 But in Europe no mastodons survived to so 

 late a period. Other and older species of 

 mastodon seem to have preceded the elephants 

 in Europe, Africa and Asia, and in fact to have 

 been the ancestors from which elephants were 

 derived. 



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