Megalonyx jeffersoni, ground sloth skeleton T-Rex (MODEL AND PLUSH NOT INCLUDED)

(MODEL AND PLUSH NOT INCLUDED)

Cast from a scientifically accurate model in fine museum- quality resin

75 million years old and had characteristics distinctive of the gracile australopithecines

and is known only from fossil finds in South America

off the Chalumna River (now Tyolomnqa)

Megalonyx jeffersoni, ground sloth skeleton T-Rex (MODEL AND PLUSH NOT INCLUDED)President, Thomas Jefferson, scientifically described fossil bones given to him by saltpeter miners found in a Monroe County cave in 1797. Jefferson thought they were the claws of a giant cat. In 1799 Casper Wistar re described the bones as a new species of extinct giant ground sloth and named it in honor of President Jefferson. Only recently have the bones been Carbon 14 dated at over 38,000 year old. On March 8, 2008 Megalonyx jeffersoni became the