A local resident discovered the remains of the ancient animal in a sand-pit of the Sunzhensky Range near the village of Achaluki of Ingushetia's Malgobeksky district, representative of the Archeological Center of Ingushetia's Culture Ministry Umalat Gadiyev reported.
"The fragment of the jaw is 56 cm long and 20 cm wide. It has three rows of flat ground teeth of an ancient mammal which supposedly lived in the Tethys Sea which once covered the territory of the North Caucasus," Gadiyev said.
According to him, such find has been recorded on Ingushetia's territory for the first time. It is being discussed with experts of the Moscow Paleontological Institute.
However, the Ingush archeologists cannot examine the relic more thoroughly or take it to the Moscow Paleontological Institute, Umalat Gadiyev said. The man who found the remains intends to hand it to authorities for a reward and Ingush archeologists have no money to pay him, he explained.
