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Tusks. Exact measurements are impossible owing to the destruc- 

 tion of the basal portions, but the tusks as recovered are each over 

 7 feet in length and so curved that the points overlap about 10 

 inches. Apparently worn by contact when under strain, the upper 

 and inner side of the point of the right tusk is beveled and fits a 

 similar area on the lower, outer side of the left. 



Styloid process. The left styloid process of the temporal bone 

 was found, but a careful search failed to recover the right. It meas- 

 ures 9^4 inches in length, is perfectly preserved and of very dense 

 texture. 



Food. Most of the large bones had been taken from the excava- 

 tion before the attention of the museum authorities was called to 

 the discovery. In removing the bones great masses of broken twigs 

 and plant remains were brought into view and their position in rela- 

 tion to the ribs and other bones gives considerable support to the 

 theory of postprandial death by miring. The stomach contents 

 were scattered and lost by the truck farmer who discovered the 

 bones. 



In opposite columns the measurements of the Temple Hill skele- 

 ton are given for comparison with those of the Warren mastodon. 91 



Warren Temple Hill 



Length, base of tusks to drop of tail 14 ft. 11 in. 15 ft. 1 in. 



Height to top of spines of back at the 



shoulders 9 ft. 2 in. 9 ft. 



Tusks: length of right tusk, on outside 



curve 8 ft. 6 in. 7 ft. 5^4 in. 



(base lost) 

 length of left tusk, on outside 



curve 7 ft. A l A >n. 



Thighbones: length of right 3 ft. 5 in. 3 ft. 6*4 in. 



length of left 3 ft. 6^ in. 3 ft. 6 in. 



Pelvis, or innominate bones, width of 6 ft. 5 ft. 7% in. 



The Temple Hill skeleton stands in the Hall of Fossil Vertebrates, 

 New York State Museum. 92 



Orleans County 



80 1825. Holley. During the excavation of the Erie canal, 

 which was completed in 1825, a large molar tooth was found in a' 

 swamp near the village of Holley. 93 An account of this find is 

 given in the " Pioneer History of Orleans County " 94 which states, 



"Data on Warren mastodon taken from Amer. Mus. Jour., 1907, 7:9^ 



M See also Science, n. s. 1921, 54:170. 



M Hall, Nat. Hist. N. Y., Geol. pt 4, 1843, p. 364. 



M By Arad Thomas, 1871, p. 307. 



