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LOT 2279
River Kennet Fossil Tooth
3 1/4 in. (78 grams, 82 mm).
A bovine tooth with root. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound from the River Kennet in a gravel bed during the drought of 1976.
Property of a Berkshire, UK, gentleman collector.
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Fossil Elrathia Trilobite Group
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
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Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 191 grams, 56 cm
Ex West country, UK, collection, 1990s onwards.
The mammoth lineage branched from the Asian elephant around 6 million years ago, and later on the Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, evolved in eastern Siberia. Woolly mammoths, being slightly smaller than living African elephants, were foragers and ate grass, as well as small, nutritious flowering plants that flourished in the environment where they lived. They may also have used their curved tusks to dig through snow and eat plants that other foragers were unable to reach.
