WM290-10) Rare Fossil REAL genuine Stegodon tooth display late Pleistocene Asia

Description

(internal #WM290-10).
You are bidding on one
piece of a genuine fossil
Stegodon tooth, complete and stabilized.
Measures 9-1/4" long x 3" tall x 3-1/2" deep
Weight: 3 pounds 11.5 ounces
GENUINE STEGODON FOSSIL
Stegodon tusks and tooth, Indonesia -
Similar to mammoth
Stegodon sp.
Early Pleistocene
Southeast Asia
At the beginning of the Late Pleistocene, Southeast Asia was a continent rather than a series of archipeligos. Fluctuating sea levels have alternately submerged and exposed large areas of land numerous times over the past 2 million years. Fossils found throughout Southeast Asia, such as Stegodon specimens, illustrate these geologic changes, as the same species are found from Indonesia to Malaysia to the Philippines.
Stegodon specimens are exceedingly rare. 1- to 2-million-year-old member of the Elephantidae subfamily, this genus is considered the ancestor of elephants, mastodons and mammoths. The genus Stegodon, from the Greek, stegos, meaning roof, and odon, meaning tooth (referring to the step ridges on the molar tooth) originated in the Late Miocene in Asia.
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