Word: miomastodon
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...fragments of jawbone. From these scanty remains, the scientists deduced that the beast stood some 7-ft. tall at the withers, was a little smaller than later mastodons and a little bulkier than modern elephants. Now, if Dr. Simpson was correct, they would be able to reconstruct the whole Miomastodon head...
Home in Manhattan, where he is curator of fossil mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, Dr. Simpson studied photographs of Hancock's find. Last week he announced that his hunch was correct. The huge jawbone surely belonged to a Miomastodon. Next summer Hancock hopes to go back to the barren sagebrush country of eastern Oregon and have another look at his diggings. If his luck holds, the bone detectives may be able to rebuild the beast's entire body...
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