Mammoth metapodial

Description

Mammuthus Metapodial (ETMNH 20225) from Saltville, VA. Locality SV10. This is a foot bone of a partial mammoth skeleton excavated in 2002-2003. Bones from this animal date to ~17,500 years ago. See Schubert and Wallace (2009) for details. Schubert, B. W., & Wallace, S. C. (2009). Late Pleistocene giant short‐faced bears, mammoths, and large carcass scavenging in the Saltville Valley of Virginia, USA. Boreas, 38(3), 482-492. Chicago