Central Asia, Siberia, Yakutia and North America, Alaska, Pleistocene (Ice Age), ca. 100,000 to 20,000 years old. A fabulous pair of specimens from a prehistoric woolly mammoth: a fragment of a fossilized tooth and a tuft of fur. The tooth is a vertical cross-section from a molar with its flat face polished to a glassy surface to display the interior structures that fossilized - the original material replaced by quartz (silica) and other minerals. The verso shows off the ridged exterior layers that were adapted to chewing and grinding fibrous plants. Included is a tuft of hair taken from the hide or body of a mammoth that was preserved in the ice and permafrost of Siberia. An interesting group that further helps visualize these majestic prehistoric beasts! Size: 4.25" L x 0.75" W x 3" H (10.8 cm x 1.9 cm x 7.6 cm)
Provenance: private Hagar collection, Wildwood, Missouri, USA
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Condition
Tooth is a fragment of a larger piece. Professionally prepared: cut and polished on one face, and coated in a clear fixative to preserve the surfaces.