Mammuthus columbi, Mammoth tooth
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Description:
A fragment of a right M3 from a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) collected from phosphate dredgings.
- Site: SC; Various Phosphate Beds
- Site Number: NH18A
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Proboscidea
- Family: Elephantidae
- Genus: Mammuthus
- Species: Mammuthus columbi
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Proboscideans
- Object Id: PV7808
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