It’s #OG #FossilFriday! πŸ‚πŸ¦₯🐴🐘πŸͺπŸŸπŸƒ This unassuming fossil is what anchored me to the paleo path. It's a fragment of mammoth tusk, the outer cementum, discovered on a river gravel bar near New Ulm, MN. It proved for me that Pleistocene mammals once roamed my hometown. Through research, I learned it is one of a dozen individual specimens form the area. For more check out Lost Bones #3 on Medium , link below, or explore other links in my profile.

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Read writing from Marcus Brandel on Medium. Independent researcher, amateur paleontologist, volunteer, writer. IT by trade. Focus: Small Pleistocene mammal collections. paleontology #osteology, #megafauna.

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