Adrienne Mayor, in The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology In Greek and Roman Times, has suggested that deinothere fossils found in Greece helped generate myths of archaic giant beings.
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An entire skull, found in the Lower Pliocene beds of Eppelsheim, Hesse-Darmstadt in 1836, measured 4 ft (1.2 m) in length and 3 ft (.9 meters) in breadth, indicating an animal exceeding modern elephants in size.
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Carroll, R.L. (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co.
In 1889, on land near Mânzaţi, researcher Grigore Ştefănescu discovered the fossilized skeleton of a Mammoth from the species Deinotherium gigantissimum.
These deposits are known as the Deinotherium Sands, because they often contain teeth and bones from the extinct proboscid Deinotherium.
In some scenes, 2-D 'profile' images of animals originally depicted by Burian were filmed in real time (as in the Styracosaurus sequences), whilst other well-known Burian scenes were recreated in stop-motion using a combination of 2-and 3-D models (as in the Deinotherium and Uintatherium sequences).