NHM-FT.43-2016
Parts
Object number
NHM-FT.43-2016
Object type
Identification
Title
Extinct elephant tooth
Description
Fragment of left lower molar of an extinct four tusked elephant (Mastodon avernensis)
Comments
This is a piece of a lower molar from an extinct mastodon-like animal with four tusks. It lived in Europe during the early Ice Age but became extinct more than half a million years ago, before the end of the Cromerian interglacial period.
Other number
35.17.D4
Production
Date
BC 500000
History and association
Previous ownership
Field collection
Collection note
Red Crag, Suffolk
