Mastodon Cervical Vertebra 4 (VCU_3D_3795)

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The remains of a massive mastodon bone were unearthed alongside other skeletal fragments near Yorktown, Virginia. Dr. Gerald Johnson, a retired geology professor at the College of William and Mary, carefully retrieved the fossilized bones. On July 31, 2018, a NextEngine Desktop 3D scanner captured precise digital images of the mastodon bone at the Virginia Living Museum, as reported in two local news articles: http://www.dailypress.com/news/science/dp-nws-mastodon-bone-scan-20180727-story.html and https://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/editorial-jefferson-s-bones-and-the-melding-of-past-and/article_6274d795-6483-5700-a4b7-9e09cb137de3.html. The bone is cataloged as Museum specimen 17-009 and was generously provided by the Virginia Living Museum. For more information about this remarkable mastodon, visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/digging-up-what-its-a-mastodon-and-its-in-virginia/2015/07/20/860fa748-241f-11e5-b72c-2b7d516e1e0e_story.html.