Show HAIRY rA ID oTIIS ONCE ROAMED OVER DELTA Skeleton found at ut Payson of one which lost Jost its life Ufe in n a gravel bed Jet on banks hanks of Old i Lake Bonneville i when wIlen hen there nas ivas 1100 feet of water over oyer Delta DeIhl region In a n recent issue of ot SCIENCE I Prof Geo Glo H H. H Hansen Hanson of the department department depart depart- ment of or Geology and Geography of ot the B D. Y U. U says than on September 17 1928 a n fossil skeleton was uncovered uncovered un un- cov covered at Payson of t what appears h mammoth to be an ancient hairy hilry There were two well ell preserved tusks of or which the left lett is over six feet foot long Two teeth two legs with feet Intact As tho the animal had bad died In terrace gravels subject to much erosion rince that time parts of ot the skeleton had washed away It Is presumed to have been living when n hen Lake Bonneville was filled to about a 3 thousand feet teet of ot water over where Delta nelta Is now now say approximately approximate approximate- ly Iy years yearn ago during the Pleis to cone period This Is the second find near Pay- Pay son The terrace was on the same level at the Provo Shore Line Lino of or ancient Lake Bonneville which shows on the base of ot the Butte nutte Sugar Loaf Loat as the low lower r water el let el there tho the upper water level is the Bonneville Shore Line about higher r or nearly half way wily up the tile b butte butto tto Volume of or Science given us by courtesy of Kay I |