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Bones In The Coal Mine
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44375
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In the 1850s, the Egypt Coal Mine in Lee County was the main source for coal in North Carolina. North Carolina's first state geologist, Ebenezer Emmons examined the first fossils from Egypt Mine. Most exciting of the discoveries that followed was a tine jawbone named Dromatherium. Emmons believed it to be the oldest mammal.
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