Few other fossil discoveries like this exist in California, a California State University paleontologist said. By
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A government ranger discovered a petrified forest while on patrol last year.
Found in California’s Mokelumne River watershed, the petrified forest also contained fossils from the Miocene era, around 10 million years ago.
During a survey of the area, 600 petrified trees, a rhino skeleton and an 8-million-year-old mastodon skull were uncovered there.
A government ranger in California discovered “bones of great beasts” amid a petrified forest while on patrol last year, including 600 petrified trees, a rhino skeleton and an 8-million-year-old mastodon skull, according to Smithsonian Magazine.
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One of the biggest fossil finds in California history has revealed ancient elephants, camels, and bone-crushing dogs
Aylin WoodwardMay 29, 2021, 17:53 IST
A fossilized mastodon skull and tusk discovered in an area of California east of Oakland.East Bay Municipal Utility District
A ranger patrolling a watershed area east of Oakland, California discovered a trove of hundreds of fossils last summer from nearly a dozen ancient species. The site contains hundreds of petrified trees as well.