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columbian mammoth

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Noun1.columbian mammothcolumbian mammoth - a variety of mammoth                
mammoth - any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks


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LACMA is currently digging up a big section of Hancock Park in an effort to erect a parking structure, and they are uncovering many new prehistoric Ice Age animal fossils in the process, including those from a Columbian mammoth.
Agebroad, one of his professors from Chadron State College in Nebraska, who identified the fossils as belonging to Columbian mammoths.
Paleontologists found the tusk of an Ice Age elephant, possibly a Columbian mammoth, bones and teeth of a towering American mastodon, wood and pollen from incense cedar and Mormon tea plants and fossils of birds, shrews, cottontails, gophers and mice.
 
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