[Utah Binger]

Simon Southerton Ping

[greyfoxx39]

Does that have anything to do with the Curelom that was just found in Alabama?

Fossils of mastodons -- forebears of the elephant -- previously have been found in the Mid-South, but Wednesday's discovery is a significant one, Young said. He believes the jawbone may have belonged to a close relative of the mastodon called a trilophodon, an animal which has never before been found in the Mid-South, he said.

The trilophodon had a long, pointed chin tipped with two short tusks, a short trunk and two larger tusks on the skull that curved down. The fossil found Wednesday belonged to an adult that Young estimates was 7 to 8 feet tall and 12 to 15 feet long and weighed between one and two tons.

Oh..I guess not.