The Ivory Pond mastodon was discovered in June, 1982, in western Massachusetts during a backhoe operation to make a stock pond on the edge of a bog. The recovered material includes several large bone slabs, chunks of ivory, and teeth from a mastodon associated with seeds of Najas flexilis and white spruce cones. Carbon-14 dates of 11,440 +/− 655 years BP (GX-9024-G) and 11,630 +/− 470 years BP (GX-9259) were returned on bone gelatin and white spruce cones respectively. Identification and analysis of pollen, wood, invertebrates, and geological features are still in process.
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