Elephant Teeth from the Atlantic Continental Shelf

Authors

Frank C. Whitmore Jr., U.S. Geological Survey
K. O. Emery, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
H. B. S. Cooke, Dalhousie University
Donald J. P. Swift, Puerto Rico Nuclear Center

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1967

Comments

Published in Science, New Series, Vol. 156, No. 3781 (Jun. 16, 1967), pp. 1477-1481.

Abstract

Teeth of mastodons and mammoths have been recovered by fishermen from at least 40 sites on the continental shelf as deep as 120 meters. Also present are submerged shorelines, peat deposits, lagoonal shells, and relict sands. Evidently elephants and other large mammals ranged this region during the glacial stage of low sea level of the last 25,000 years.