Fifth stop - University of Wyoming
Today we made our fifth Mastodons of Unusual Size stop, at the University of Wyoming Geological Museum in Laramie. We knew there would not be much to see here, but given the scarcity of mastodons in this region we were hoping for anything.
It turns out that, while there is a fair amount of mammoth material at the museum, there are only two mastodon teeth:
Both of these teeth are m3s, but unfortunately both are missing their anterior lophids, so we couldn't measure them. And, as it turns out, it appears that both teeth are originally from Illinois, not Wyoming! With these teeth accounted for, as far as we've been able to determine no mastodons are known from Wyoming.
From here we head south into Colorado for our next stop.
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