Thomas Jefferson Fossil Collection
Online Exhibit Index
- Thomas Jefferson
Fossil Collection - American Mastodon
(Mammut americanum)
- History of the Discovery: Part 1 - First Accounts
- History of the Discovery: Part 2 - Enter the French
- History of the Discovery: Part 3 - Enter the British
- History of the Discovery: Part 4 - Enter the Americans
- History of the Discovery: Part 5 - Jefferson's Notes
- History of the Discovery: Part 6 - The Search Heats Up
- History of the Discovery: Part 7 - Peale's Mammoth
- History of the Discovery: Part 8 - Fossils in the White House
- History of the Discovery: Part 9 - Meanwhile, in Europe…
- History of the Discovery: Part 10 - Epilogue
- More about Mastodons
- Mastodon Fossil Gallery
- Calcaneum (heel bone)
- Humerus (upper forelimb bone)
- Lower Jaw (outside view)
- Lower Jaw (inside view)
- Molar Tooth (adult, little wear)
- Molar Tooth (adult, some wear)
- Molar Tooth (adult, extreme wear)
- Premolar Tooth (juvenile)
- Patella (kneecap)
- Tibia (shin bone)
- Tusk
- Ulna (forearm bone)
- Vertebra (back bone)
- Great Claw (Megalonyx jeffersonii)
- Other Fossils
- Ancient Bison (Bison antiquus)
- Ancient Horse (Equus cf. E. complicatus)
- Harlan's Musk Ox (Bootherium bombifrons)
- Megalodon Shark (Carcharocles megalodon)
- Stag Moose (Cervalces scotti)
- Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
- Other Pages
- Big Bone Lick (fossil locality in Kentucky)
- Buffon's American Degeneracy: Part 1 - Old World vs. New
- Buffon's American Degeneracy: Part 1 - The American Reaction
- Buffon's American Degeneracy: Part 3 - Modern Perspectives
- Buffon's Epochs of Nature
- Cuvier's Revolutions of the Globe
- Fossils and Extinction
- Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
- Peale's Philadelphia Museum
- Philadelphia School of Paleontology
- Product of The Enlightenment
- Exhibit Index (you are here)
- Credits