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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.

Found this interesting tooth today in about 2 feet of water along Des Moines River in Southeast Iowa. To be 100% honest I have no idea if it belongs to a mammoth because I have never found one and havnt studied them much. I compared it to pictures on the internet and it kind of looks like a mammoth tooth but it also doesn't.

Here's the latest on molecular biology / biotechnology advances and our furry friend, the Woolly Mammoth. Unlike most dinosaur fossils, Woolly Mammoth remains are often found in frozen, less-deteriorated states in Siberia; and often contain viable proteins such as collagen, from which genetic sequences can be produced. In ice condition: Amazingly preserved woolly mammoth found frozen in Siberia after 39,000 YEARS goes on display in Tokyo http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2358695/Woolly-mammoth-frozen-Siberia-39-000-YEARS-goes-display-Tokyo-woolly.html Woolly mammoth discovery raises exciting possibilities http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/woolly-mammoth-discovery-raises-exciting-possibilities-1.1386398 The quest is to clone a mammoth. The question is: should we do it? http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jul/14/wooly-mammoth-extinct-cloning-dna De-extinction: Mammoth prospect, or just woolly? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23602142 DNA study suggests hunting did not kill off mammoth http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24034954 Russian and Korean Researchers Will Inject Mammoth DNA Into Elephant Eggs, Resurrecting 10,000-Year-Old Beast http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/russian-and-korean-researchers-will-inject-mammoth-dna-elephant-eggs-resurrecting-10000-year-old-beast Resurrection Researchers Recreate Woolly Mammoth Protein in Living Cell http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-05/researchers-resurrect-mammoth-blood

Here are 3 euro river finds. the top one is a lower steppe mammoth tooth (Rare) the middle is a lower straight tusked elephant tooth (Rarest) and a blue woolly upper. Got the 3 for a steal from my German connection. I like to brag about my amazing deals lol.

Hey guys, new to the forum but here is my collection focused on proboscidea but I collect other things mainly Oligocene mammal teeth and jaws, I don't have anything titanothere yet though.... also some dinosaur bones like my ceratopian jaw hinge, I've identified all of my fossils are except for the white gomp tooth on the stand, I think it might be Chinese platybelodon. anyways here it is. thanks -Rylawz

im sure this is a tooth but i found alot of the skeleton stiull uncovering it alot is shattered but i wanted to point out the hatch marks on the bone, im not commpletlt sure its mammoth bu the tooth looks like it and it was clost to these parts... just wondering what th cut marks on the bone came from thanks i circled the spots sorry the camera sucks. but i a sure yopu they are not from the break of the bone these marks are aged... tyvm bh

Woolly mammoth fossils unearthed at Transbay construction site by Andy Wright, Bay Citizen, September 12, 2012 http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/woolly-mammoth-bones-unearthed-transbay/ Mammoth tooth found at Transbay dig by Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, September 13, 2012 http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Mammoth-tooth-found-at-Transbay-dig-3861381.php Woolly mammoth tooth found by SF construction crew, ABC7Chicago.com, September 13, 2012 http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/bizarre&id=8808955 Best wishes, Paul H.

I found these in the Peace River-Florida. I was told that these may be mammoth or mastadon enamel fragments. Can anyone confirm? Thanks

I found this in the Peace River-Florida. The pictures are the not the greatest. The sides are etched which makes me think that they are either mammoth or mastadon. The lower picture is a similar piece. Please let me know your thoughts by looking at the top picture. Any help would be appreicated! Thanks

Greetings All! My name is Don Esker. I'm a vertebrate paleontologist currently working in Waco Texas. I just left a 4 1/ 2 year stint working under Larry Agenbroad at the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs SD to take over as Program Coordinator for the Waco Mammoth Site. It's a fantastic 88 KA ybp site that really hasn't gotten the public attention it deserves; a fact I hope to rectify during my tenure here. My current priority is building the site's toolkit of educational programs. If you have any ideas, don't hesitate to reply!

Hello All! I need your help, but first I'd best introduce myself. I'm the new Program Coordinator -- and on-site paleontologist -- for the Waco Mammoth Site. For those of unfamiliar with the site, it's a late-Pleistocene recurrent mass-mortality site for Columbian mammoths and a scattering of other Rancholabrean megafauna. From 68 KA onwards at least two groups of mammoths and their camp-followers got caught in flash floods along a tributary of the Bosque River in what would become the western outskirts of Waco, TX. The site is currently a city-run in-situ display of six of those mammoths, in an enclosed climate-controlled shelter. The facility is loaded with educational potential, but at the moment all we've got is a (very nice) guided tour. I want to do better. One of the educational activities I'm looking to add in the near future is a screen-washing. I'll have the students screen and pick fossiliferous sediment and ID what they've found. They'll be able to keep most of what they find (with exceptions for scientifically important specimens) and all of their findings will get entered into a database that will be run through the PAST statistical package. I'll write up the results and try to get them published -- with the kids listed individually in the acknowledgements. The kids get real fossils, they get to participate in a real scientific study, and I get to do some research. I think it's an idea with potential, with one wrinkle; I'm having a hard time getting the sediment! I've tried buying phosphate gravel from the mines in Florida and North Carolina, but my efforts seem to be stalling. I know that some such gravel is available for resale, but it's a tad pricey. There's no way I could afford to buy the 100 or so kilos I want on the shoe-string budget I've got for the time being. If anyone has a line on a better source of bulk sediment, I'd love to hear from you! In fact, if you've got any ideas for spreading interest in paleontology, we need to talk. Paleontology is the gateway drug of science -- if we want to teach critical thinking in this country, fossils are the best place to start. Please help me work to make that happen. Regards, Don Esker

Young Mammoth Likely Butchered by Humans (The carcass of the juvenile "Yuka" may have been cut up, eaten and then buried by ancient people.) by Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News, April 04, 2012, http://news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-yuka-120404.html http://www.livescience.com/19475-juvenile-mammoth-butchered-humans.html Woolly mammoth carcass may have been cut into by humans by Ben Aviss, BBC News, http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17525070 Yours, Paul H.

I was out prospecting for new digging locations yesterday. Not supposed to do too much digging- just enough to test for the presence of fossils. I was please to find this one.. Usually I can easily tell the difference between the chewing surface and the root but on Mammoth, it is not so easy. I have showed this to a couple of fossil hunters, and I said that the bumps (left on photo #1, bottom of photo#3) are the occlusal surface and the broken edge is toward the roots. Both of them commented "Well, if you say so... So where are the roots , where is the chewing surface.. and are there easy "tells" to determine which is which when you only have one edge that seems to be UN-erupted ? Special-credit. Can you tell if this is forward or trailing edge of the tooth and possible position in the jaw? Thanks SS

This was found in Grandville, Michigan. It was off the shore of the Grand River.

I went hunting for a couple hours today near the part of GMR where it meets the TAR river. It was super cold and my feet were numb after an hour. i had to use the floating screen and shovel instead of the raquet ball raquet. I did find a cool piece of tooth that i think is mastodon or mammoth. Found some nice great whites too. a few large Megs. some fish plates, one from a parrot fish. ear bone from a whale etc... the usual stuff. Good times!

On a visit to my fiance's Grandfather's house, I spotted these fossils being used as paperweights. He didn't know what they were, but I'm hoping you might be able to help. My Dad thinks they might be Mammoth or Mastodon teeth. The images are taken from my phone, so they are not the best quality, but I can take more if necessary. Fossil 1: Fossil 2: