Description
- Woolly Mammoth Tooth
- Nice cross-section of a Mammoth Tooth
- Pleistocene Age
- Hawthorn Formation
- Southeastern United States (South Carolina)
- The specimen will come in the 4 1/4″ x 5 1/14″ Riker with Label as shown
Woolly Mammoth Tooth. The Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is an extinct species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch.
It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene. The woolly mammoth began to diverge from the steppe mammoth about 800,000 years ago in East Asia.
Its closest extant relative is the Asian elephant. DNA studies show that the Columbian mammoth was a hybrid between woolly mammoths and another lineage descended from steppe mammoths.