Elephant, leaves fossil found in Blora

A team of Bandung Museum of Geology has found an almost complete fossil of elephant along with several leaves fossil in Blora, Central Java, in late February.

Suntoyo, head of Blora tourism and culture agency, told The Jakarta Post Wednesday the team was still making further excavation at the site in Sunggun hamlet in Kradenan district, about two kilometer from another site where an elephant  tusk was found in January.

The elephant fossil was found four-meter deep underground. The elephant was predicted to reach 2.5 meter high because they found a 1.7 meter hind leg bone.

Suntoyo said that the leaves fossil suggested that the southern Blora area was a savana during the Pleistocene, the time period that spanned from 1.8 million to – 10,000 years ago, crossed by the Ancient Bengawan Solo River. (dre)