1.9" Mammoth Tooth Cross Section In Riker Display Pleistocene Age Hawthorne FM
Location: United States, Off The Gulf Coast, Florida. Hawthorne Formation
Weight: 3.5 Ounces with box
Dimensions of Tooth: 1.9 Inches Long, 1.5 Inches Wide, 0.4 Inches Thick
Comes with a Riker Display Box.
The item pictured is the one you will receive.
Pleistocene Epoch 20 Million Years old.
Trade in raw fossil “Mammoth” ivory is illegal in CA, HI, IL, NJ, NV, and NY
The Mammoth is a species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene epoch and was one of the last in a line of mammoth species. The mammoth diverged from the steppe mammoth about 400,000 years ago in East Asia. Its closest extant relative is the Asian elephant. The appearance and behavior of this species are among the best-studied of any prehistoric animal because of the discovery of frozen carcasses in Siberia and Alaska, as well as skeletons, teeth, stomach contents, dung, and depictions of life in prehistoric cave paintings. Mammoth remains had long been known in Asia before they became known to Europeans in the 17th century. The origin of these remains was long a matter of debate and was often explained as being remains of legendary creatures. The mammoth was identified as an extinct species of elephant by Georges Cuvier in 1796.
Woolly mammoths rivaled modern African elephants in stature, with males standing 8.9–11.2 feet tall and weighing up to 6.6 short tons, while females reached 8.5–9.5 feet and 4.4 short tons. Newborns weighed approximately 200 pounds. These Ice Age giants possessed specialized adaptations for frigid climates: dense fur with long guard hairs and dense undercoat, shortened ears and tail to reduce heat loss, and elongated curved tusks. Throughout their 60-year lifespan, mammoths replaced their molars six times. Like modern elephants, they used their tusks and trunks for manipulation, combat, and foraging, subsisting primarily on grasses and sedges across the mammoth steppe ecosystem spanning northern Eurasia and North America.
