Mammoth Id Help

[ThePrehistoricMaster]

Hi. I need ID help for some mammoth stuff i got. I would like to know what mammoth species these things belonged to.

1. Mammoth tooth

- Is between 0.1 and 1.8 million years old.

- Was found in a gravel pit in Budapest, Hungary.

2. Two small pieces from a tusk

- Is between 10.000 and 500.000 years old.

- Was found in Russia.

[ThePrehistoricMaster]

2.

[younghound]

Awesome!

[Shellseeker]

Not sure if it helps but:

Teeth

• All mammoths are identified primarily by features of their teeth
  • Thickness of enamel
  • Number of enamel loops in the molar teeth, seen from bite surface view (Laws 1966)
    • Columbian Mammoth molars have 5 to 8 enamel plates per 100 mm (3.9 in) (Maglio 1973)
    • Channel Island Mammoth molars are like the Columbian's, only smaller
• Twenty six teeth in all
• Six sets of teeth in a lifetime
• Resemble Asian elephant teeth, with closed enamel loops viewed on chewing surface
• All mammoths have strongly curved and twisted tusks (Lister 1996)
  • Tusks continue to grow throughout the mammoth's lifetime
  • Life history data is stored in the dentin's growth bands (season of death, age at sexual maturation, calving, migration) (Fox et al 2003)

http://library.sandiegozoo.org/factsheets/_extinct/mammoth/mammoth.htm

This is also a good "read"on differences in size and number of enamel loops on different Mammoths -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth

You seem to have a tooth with very narrow "enamel loops"

Compare the size of enamel loops with the Imperial Mammoth tooth at this site

http://www.paleodirect.com/pgset2/lmx049.htm

Edited January 2, 2014 by Shellseeker

[AeroMike]

Do you have pictures on the chewing surface?

[rylawz]

woolly mammoth without a doubt