microrobert
07-19-2013, 08:26 PM
Fossilized Elephant Tusk Found on Seafloor
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A fossilized elephant tusk at least 100,000 years old has been discovered on the seafloor off the Sicilian coast, according to a survey of underwater archaeologists.
Discovered during a series of archaeological dives in the waters off Torretta Granitola, a village on the island’s southwestern coast, the tusk is more than 3 feet long.
“It was found embedded on the sea bottom in Pleistocene alluvional deposits,” the Superintendency of Maritime Cultural Heritage of Sicily said in a statement.
In the same area, Giampaolo Mirabile, a local diver, found some years ago two molar teeth belonging to the dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis, or Elephas Mnaidriensis, a species that roamed Sicily between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago.
Fossilized Elephant Tusk Found on Seafloor : Discovery News (http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/fossilized-elephant-tusk-found-on-seafloor-130719.htm)
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A fossilized elephant tusk at least 100,000 years old has been discovered on the seafloor off the Sicilian coast, according to a survey of underwater archaeologists.
Discovered during a series of archaeological dives in the waters off Torretta Granitola, a village on the island’s southwestern coast, the tusk is more than 3 feet long.
“It was found embedded on the sea bottom in Pleistocene alluvional deposits,” the Superintendency of Maritime Cultural Heritage of Sicily said in a statement.
In the same area, Giampaolo Mirabile, a local diver, found some years ago two molar teeth belonging to the dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis, or Elephas Mnaidriensis, a species that roamed Sicily between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago.
Fossilized Elephant Tusk Found on Seafloor : Discovery News (http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/fossilized-elephant-tusk-found-on-seafloor-130719.htm)