After the crocodile, comes a mammoth
28 April 2007 (Jakarta Post) - In the heels of the fossil crocodile find near the Sangiran site, a fossil of a mammoth is found.
Mammoth fossil found in C. Java
A resident has discovered fossilized mammoth bones near where the fossil of a prehistoric crocodile was discovered at the Sangiran excavation site on April 20.
Gunawan, a staff member at the Sangiran Agency for the Preservation of Ancient Sites, said this latest discovery took place April 22, but was only reported to his office four days later.
“The mammoth fossil is believed to be from the same era as the crocodile found earlier,” Gunawan said Friday.
Officials earlier said the crocodile fossil was believed to come from the Middle Pleistocene era, about 800,000 years ago.
According to Gunawan, the fossilized mammoth (Stegodon trigonocephalus) was found by Daryanto, a resident of Dayu village in Gondangrejo district, Karanganyar regency.
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Tags: Daryanto, Dayu Village, Gondangrejo district, Gunawan, Indonesia archaeology, Indonesia paleontology, Java, Karanganyar regency, mammoth fossil, Pleistocene, Sangiran, Sangiran Agency for the Preservation of Ancient Sites, Stegodon trigonocephalus
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