WOOLLY MAMMOTH TOOTH - 20,000 years old - Siberia
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20,000 years old
Lena River area, Yakutia, Siberia, Russia
20,000 years old
Lena River area, Yakutia, Siberia, Russia
A very fine example of a mammoth tooth from the permafrost of Siberia, including almost complete roots.
This is a gorgeous specimen of lovely colour, beautifully preserved, with a lustrous grinding surface.
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MAMMOTH TEETH
A mammoth’s molar teeth consisted of enamel ridges separated by dentine and as the teeth grind together the ridges break up the food. Mammoth teeth were very resistant to wear because their diet consisted of tough grass, which contained grit. A mammoth had six sets of teeth in its life and at any one time only one tooth was in use on each side of the lower and upper jaws. As each tooth wore down it was pushed up until it was discarded and replaced with a new one from behind. |
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Size: 16.5 x 15 x 7.5 centimetres
Weight: 1.18 kilograms
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