Fossilized Cave Bear Tooth, Mammoth Tooth & Fur (3 pcs)

Lot 31

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Fauna, Flora, Stone & Bones - Fall Edition by Artemis Gallery

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Fauna, Flora, Stone & Bones - Fall Edition

By Artemis Gallery

Oct 28, 2021

Set Reminder 2021-10-28 12:00:00 2021-10-28 12:00:00 America/New_York Bidsquare Bidsquare : Fauna, Flora, Stone & Bones - Fall Edition https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/artemis-gallery/fauna-flora-stone-bones---fall-edition-7768 Join us for a very special early Fall auction featuring fabulous fossils, rocks, and minerals, plus art depicting flora and fauna from antiquity to present day. This is one sale you won't want to miss! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com

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Lot Description

Central Asia, Siberia, Yakutia and North America, Northwestern United States, Alaska, Pleistocene (Ice Age), ca. 1.8 million to 10,000 years ago; Eastern Europe, Romania, Carpathian Mountains, Pleistocene, ca. 1.8 million to 24,000 years ago. This is a great gathering of fossilized pieces from prehistoric animals: a cave bear tooth, a mammoth tooth, and a tuft of mammoth hair! The teeth are both molars: the bear tooth is from is from Ursus spelaeus, and the larger slab from a woolly mammoth. The bear tooth has two lengthy roots and a flattened crown with a beige enamel. The original chemicals of the mammoth tooth were replaced during the fossilization process with quartz (silica) and other minerals, and this piece is a cross section, cut and polished, to show off the inner structure. The tuft of hair is from the body of a mammoth that was preserved in the ice! Size of mammoth tooth: 6" L x 2.25" W (15.2 cm x 5.7 cm); bear tooth: 1" L x 1.5" W (2.5 cm x 3.8 cm); case: 4.25" L x 3.25" W (10.8 cm x 8.3 cm)

Provenance: private Hagar collection, Wildwood, Missouri, USA

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#160007

Condition

Mammoth tooth is a fragment of a larger piece, cut and polished on one planar face, and covered in clear fixative coating. The bear tooth is intact with clear fixative coating and displayed in modern Riker case.
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