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A geologist surveying frog habitat found the most complete Pacific mastodon molar in the area
Brigid Lynch took it for an oddly shaped rock in a San Mateo County creek bed. Midpen has since donated the tooth to Stanford, where a radiocarbon date will test a preliminary estimate of about 10,000 years.
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