Southern Mammoth Tooth, from Carpathian Mountains (REF:CMMT6)

Mammuthus meridionalis, or the Southern Mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth native to Europe and Central Asia from the Gelasian stage of the Early Pleistocene, living from 2.5–0.8 mya and could grow up to 4 meters high at the shoulder.

 

The teeth of a mammoth consist of a series of plates composed of enamel surrounding a dentine core. These are held together in a matrix of dental cement. Each tooth erupted from the back of the jaw and slowly moved forward as it wore, to be replaced by another tooth from behind. The thickness and number of tooth plates are important identification criteria.