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Title
Castoroides
ohioensis
Giant
Beaver
.
Description
Adult
specimen.
;
Radio-carbon
date
from
wood
samples
found
with
specimen
:
11,480
+-
160
years
B.P.
This
date
range
translates
to
11420
+-
187
years
B.C.
,
according
to the
online
conversion
software
of the
Cologne
Radiocarbon
Calibration
&
Paleoclimate
Research
Package
<
http://www.calpal-online.de/>.;
A
large
file
with
23
items
of
correspondence
between
curator
Edward
S.
Thomas
and
other
researchers
is
located
within
the
Natural
History
collection
files
,
under
Northern
Lights
Castoroides.
;
Discovered
in
1957
within
removed
peat
from a
glacial
kettle
lake
(late
Wisconsin)
that was
excavated
for a
housing
development
near
the
Northern
Lights
Shopping
Center
site.
Mr.
Donald
R.
Ayle
found
the
skull
and
donated
it
to the
museum.
Museum
staff
found
additional
bones
, as
well
as
hundreds
of
specimens
of
beaver-gnawed
wood.
This
wood
does
not
appear
to be
within
the
OHS
collections
(2001).
; The
giant
beaver
(Castoroides
ohioensis)
first
became
known
to
science
from a
specimen
found
while
digging
the
Ohio
Canal
near
Nashport
,
Ohio
(northwest
of
Zanesville).
Its
scientific
name
reflects
its
similarity
to the
modern
beaver
(Castor
canadensis)
and the
state
where
it
was
discovered.
When
mature
, this
extinct
species
from the
Late
Tertiary
(3
million
years
before
present)
through
the
Pleistocene
Era
(10,000
years
before
present)
was
nearly
as
large
as a
modern
black
bear.
Contributors
Ayle
,
Donald
R,
;
Ohio
State
Museum
,
Language
zxx
Relation
http://worldcat.org/oclc/70804108/viewonline;
http://www.ohiomemory.org;
http://www.ohiohistory.org/ohiopix/
Description-Abstract
A
partial
skull
including
the
maxillary
portion
anterior
to the
jugal
zygoma
, with
incisors
essentially
complete
and
heavily
incurved
.
Left
palate
is
complete
anteriorly
, the
P-4
and
M-1
are
present
.
Format-Extent
1
partial
skull
;
20.32
x
16.51
x
8.89
cm
.
Coverage-Spatial
United
States--Ohio--Franklin
County--Columbus
.
PDI.Title
Castoroides
ohioensis
-
Giant
Beaver
.
OCLC number
70804108
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