Mammoth Tooth Cross-Section in Display Box - United States a giant meteorite split

a giant meteorite split

it is related to the soapberry family

2 ozFossil Type & Species: Compression & Knightia sp

The largest two fragments

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Mammoth Tooth Cross-Section in Display Box - United States a giant meteorite splitAlmost everyone has heard of the great Wolly Mammoth. The truth is, there were a few different species of mammoth that lived all over the world. It is believed that the genus Mammuthus sp. first developed around 5 million years ago in southern Africa. Mammoths migrated up through modern day Asia, across the Bering Land Bridge, and down into the Americas. Living until just 5000 years ago, lasting from the Pliocene Epoch to the Holocene, it is likely