Abstract
AN almost complete skeleton of Uintatherium, a six-horned animal the size of an elephant which dominated the primitive forests of southern Wyoming about thirty million years ago, has been found by Dr. Charles L. Gazin, palaeontologist of the Smithsonian Institution. Bones of this giant mammal are common; but a skeleton with only a few parts missing is rare. Dr. Gazin's find lacks only one hind leg, part of a foreleg, and the neck vertebræ. The skull, about three feet long, is in exceptionally good condition, although the lower jaw is considerably crushed. There is also a second skull, including one of the beast's sabre-like down-pointed tusks about a foot long. The skeleton is expected to become one of the main exhibits in the U.S. National Museum, after it has been worked free from the matrix of hardened clay in which it is embedded, and properly mounted. This work may require as much as a year.
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Fossil Skeleton of Uintatherium. Nature 147, 114 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147114b0
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