8.2" Adult M2 Southern Mammoth Molar - Hungary

Adult M Southern Mammoth Molar - Hungary #111826

This beautiful 8.2" fossil molar is from a Southern Mammoth (Mammuthus meridionalis), from Hungary and is between eight hundred thousand and one million years old. This amazing example an M2 molar. This tooth shows wear from use and fossilization but the prisms (hard enamel structures), dentine and cementum are in very good condition. This specimen is from the right maxilla of an juvenile mammoth and has a piece of bone still in tact between the roots.

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Mammuthus meridionalis, or the southern mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth endemic to Europe and central Asia from the Gelasian stage of the Early Pleistocene, living from 2.5 to 1.5 million years ago. M. meridionalis is one of the largest proboscideans to have ever lived, estimated about 4 meters (13 feet) tall and weighing 8 to 10 tons. Its molars had low crowns and a small number of thick enamel ridges, adapted to a woodland diet of leaves and shrubs. This indicates it lived in a relatively warm climate and probably lacked the dense fur of the more recent Woolly Mammoth.

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