Baby steppe mammoth jaw (OUMNH PAL-Q.11543)3D Model
Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England; ~200,000 years old.
Among the 1500 Ice Age mammal fossils excavated near Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire were 922 fossils of the steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii). The mammoth fossils mostly belonged to adults, but some remains of young juveniles were also found, including this near-complete lower jaw of a juvenile mammoth. The baby teeth (milk/deciduous teeth) preserved in the jaw and the tooth wear show that this mammoth was only a baby, at around 1 or 2 years old! You can even see the baby teeth starting to erupt at the back of the jaw. This fossil represents one of the youngest mammoths excavated from the site.
Specimen: OUMNH PAL-Q.11543 Collections Online: https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/oum-catalogue-69842
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