The mastodon that started it all
This project started out as an effort to understand Max, a partial mastodon skeleton from Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet, CA (Max is on display at the Western Science Center). We temporarily removed Max's lower jaw from exhibit in order to examine some healed injuries, and while we had him out of his case we took measurements on his teeth. We expected the teeth to be huge, because Max is the largest mastodon known from California, but his teeth turned out to be rather small and very narrow. That started us looking at other California mastodons, and the project has snowballed from there.
Below is Max's lower jaw while he was off display (from https://valleyofthemastodon.wordpress.com/2015/08/...):
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