America has already afforded the huge mastodons, elephants, megatherium, megalonyx, as primitive land animals, and many large reptiles, crocodiles of streams and lakes.
"The American Nations, Vol. I."
C. S. Rafinesque
It looked like a keepsake the megatherium had hoped to save from the usurpers of its lair.
"The Thing in the Attic"
James Benjamin Blish
5. Dr. Holmes, of Charleston, S. C., found pottery at the base of a peat bog, on the banks of the Ashley River, in close connection with the remains of the Mastodon and megatherium.
"A Manual of the Antiquity of Man"
J. P. MacLean