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This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Stegodon

In 1842, Hugh Falconer brought 70 chests of dried plants and 48 chests of fossils to India to study.

Between 1846 and 1849, Hugh Falconer and Proby T. Cautley published over 107 plates describing it items from those chests. One of them was Stegodon

Originally assigned to Elephantidae, modern elephants, its now thought to be part of the older Stegodontidae. Stegodontidae has no living family members today.