17.3" Southern Mammoth Partial Mandible with M2 Molar - Hungary

Southern Mammoth Partial Mandible with M Molar - Hungary #337194

This is a 17.3" long, half mandible (lower left jaw) of a sub-adult Southern Mammoth (Mammuthus meridionalis) with a beautifully preserved M2 molar in its socket. It is Pleistocene in age, or approximately 800,000 - 1,000,000 years old and was found in a sand extraction area near Budapest in northern Hungary. Molars of the Southern Mammoth are much rarer than those of the Woolly Mammoth.

This specimen is spectacular both in its rarity and its excellent condition. The mandible has been stabilized, but is completely intact and has no restoration or repair whatsoever. This is truly a gorgeous specimen!

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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SPECIES

Mammuthus meridionalis

AGE

Pleistocene (800,000 - 1,000,000 Years)