page_title: Timeline of paleontology in Michigan
section_title: 1960s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of paleontology in Michigan / 20th century / 1960s
caption_attribution_description: Español: Reconstrucción - interpretación del Mammuthus columbi
context_page_description: This timeline of paleontology in Michigan is a chronologically ordered list events in the history of paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Michigan.
context_section_description: 1961
  August: Larry Kickels collected the third right upper molar of a Jefferson mammoth from a gravel layer 100 feet below the surface of Berrien County, near the town of Watervliet.
  1962
  September 18 Larry Kramer discovered a lower mastodon molar now catalogued as GRPM 12540 in Paris Township along Buck Creek.
  Skeels reported that since MacAlpin's 1940 review of Michigan mastodon discoveries 49 new finds had been made. He also performed the first census of local mammoth remains, noting that 32 Jefferson mammoths had been discovered in Michigan.
  Hatt also formally described a partial mastodon skull now catalogued as CIPS 827 which had been discovered in Pontiac.
  Fossils of a Jefferson mammoth were discovered in Gratiot County.
  1963
  Oltz and Kapp reported the 1962 Gratiot County mammoth discovery to the scientific literature.
  Hatt reported the discovery of a mammoth molar in Oakland County to the scientific literature.
  1964
  May:  Fred Berndt discovered lower jaw fragments and the second right molar of a lower mastodon jaw, in Lincoln Township. The remains are now catalogued as UMMP 49425.
  1965
  The Petoskey stone, which is made of fossil coral, was designated the state stone of Michigan.
caption: Restoration of a Columbian or "Jefferson" mammoth
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