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Tim Vertebrata Bandung Geology Museum find ancient fossil elephants, which are relatively intact in the Hamlet Sunggun, Medalem Village, District Kradenan, Kabupaten Blora, Central Java. The findings that the police had confused the Kradenan Sector and Tourism and Culture Department Blora regency because the team is not requesting permission digging.
Excavation conducted in the former mine cut C, about 2 kilometers from the Bengawan Solo and 500 meters from the findings of ancient elephant tusk early January 2009. Ancient fossil elephants are on the slopes around the quarry with a depth of 4 meters.
Chairman Tim Vertebrata Bandung Geology Museum, Iwan Kurniawan, Fri (3 / 4) in Blora, say, digging is done since February 28. Fossil elephants Elephas species is still incomplete, but the bones are rotten in, remaining outside the fossil bones or skin.
The parts that are tergali among others intact skull with teeth, arm bones back, rib, pinggul, belikat, and thigh. Below that there are fossil bones-bones that have not tergali.
"We estimate that high elephant 2.5 meters because the elephants back foot length 1.7 meters," said Iwan.
According to Iwan, the findings of research based on the reference GHR von Koenigswald 1932, and the era of Dutch map. Reference is recorded in the area that potentially contains Blora fossil Village is a cockfight or Megeri, Menden, and Ngandong. The villages are located in the District and is the sedimentation Kradenan Bengawan Solo ancient.
"Our importance is that the research results will be published, the findings are not selling. Soal akan fossil stored where, we will coordinate with local governments, "said Iwan.
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