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Dwarf Mammoth Jaw
Description: Modern elephants, along
with the recently extinct mammoths only evolved about 5 million
years ago. Since then elephants have evolved to live in many
different habitats and their fossils have been found on all
continents except Australia and Antarctica. They have come in a
range of sizes and shapes. Some have become dwarfed like Elephas
falconeri whose fossil remains have been found on the islands of
Malta and Sicily in the Mediterranean. E. falconeri stood only
0.9 m or 3 ft high at the shoulder. Going the other way we have
Mammuthus trogontherii the Steppe Mammoth which lived in Europe
before it became extinct and stood 4.5 m 14.75 ft high at the
shoulder. In between we have numerous elephant species with
strangely twisted tusks, some with 4 tusks, some with none, or
their tusks devolved to flat teeth designed to work as a shovel.
Size: 52cm/20.5in. 37/14.5. 21.5/8.5.
Item#:
dwarf-mammoth-jaw-s062-va
Cost: $250
(+ shipping)
Juvenile Wooly Mammoth Jaw
Description:
Size: 9x5 in / 23x13 cm
Item#: juvenile-wooly-mammoth-jaw-s063-va
Cost: $95
(+ shipping)
Mammuthus Columbi
Description:
Columbian Mammoth. The Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus
columbi) was the largest mammal to have been trapped in the La
Brea Tar Pits. Some individuals stood over 13 feet tall. The
mammoth migrated into North America from Asia about 2 million
years ago. The Columbian Mammoth was larger, but less hairy,
than the wooly mammoth which lived near the ice sheets in the
northern end of the continent. The mammoth became extinct about
11,000 years ago - about the same time the first humans migrated
into North America.
