Owosso Mastodon
American Mastodon (Mammut americanus) at
Owosso farm site in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Owosso Mastodon
Owosso Mastodon as museum specimen. Mounted male (left) and female Mammut americanum skeletons at the new (2019) University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The female was recovered near Owosso, Michigan. Both sets of fossils date to about 11,000 years ago. This image is inline deepink from an external server, inline linking does not directly infringe copyright but can be removed on request.
Museum locations
Present / last location:	University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, in United States

Date of arrival

	University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, Ann Arbor, United States

Identification

Museum accession number	UMMNH XX?

Description
Species:	American Mastodon (Mammut americanus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀, unknown age
Status:	fossil
Characteristics:	skeleton
Body height:	4.79 meter, 15.7 feet
Origin
Born:	* about 11,000 years ago wild
Birth place:	in North America unspecified forest
Death
Dead:	†about 11,000 years ago
Death location:	Owosso farm site
Death reason:	:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Owosso farm site, in United States

Date of arrival

	Owosso farm site from North America unspecified forest

Record history
History of updates	2021-10-22

Latest document update	2021-10-26 13:12:15

† Owosso Mastodon is a dead fossil Female ♀ American Mastodon (Mammut americanus), , who died at Owosso farm site, in United States, .

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, in Ann Arbor, United States.

Origin

Owosso Mastodon was born wild at North America unspecified forest.

Comments / pictures

The Owosso mastodon, discovered by a ditch-digger, derives its name from the fact that it was unearthed at a farm near Owosso in 1944. It probably lived in that vicinity as long as 20,000 years ago, according to Dr. Lewis B. Kellum, director of the Museum of Paleontology.

Preparation of the mount, the most complete and best preserved Skeleton of its kind ever found in Michigan, was supervised by Dr. Ermine C. Case, professor-emeritus of vertebrate paleontology, and Dr. Claude W. Hibbard, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology. It was executed by William H. Buettner, preparator of the Museum staff.

After two years of work, the Owosso mastodon, huge 15 by 7-foot prehistoric monster, has been pieced together and now is on display in the University Museum’s Hall of Evolution.
Gertrude Haan (1947)

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Owosso Mastodon, American Mastodon (Mammut americanus) located at University of Michigan Museum of Natural History in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=10620. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Gertrude Haan, Owosso Mastodon Finally Ready For Exhibit Here (1947); online at https://aadl.org/aa_news_19470815-owosso_mastodon_finally_ready_for_exhibit_here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Male_%26_female_mastodons,_front.jpg

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