Animals Before Man 



family called Cervalces^ because it was inter- 

 mediate in appearance between the elk and 

 moose. The antlers were neither as wide and 

 branching as are those of the elk nor so flat- 

 tened as those of 

 the moose, but a 

 combination of the 

 two. This deer 

 was as large as 

 a moose, and is 



Skull of the elk-moose Cervalces. knoWn from three 



(After Scott.) 



specimens only. 

 Two of these were skulls found at Big Bone 

 Lick, Ky., a spot that must have been a great 

 resort for the later quadrupeds such as bison, 

 elk, and Mastodons. The third was an almost 

 complete skeleton discovered in a marl bed at 

 Mt. Harmon, N. J. 



The Mammoth and Mastodon will ever be 

 the most interesting of the Pleistocene animals, 

 partly because they are so different from any 

 now found in North America, partly because 

 they have become extinct so recently that it is 

 entirely possible that they were contemporary 



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