3.3 kg fossilized woolly mammoth upper jaw tooth with roots. - Fossil molar - Mammuthus primigenius - 25 cm - 20 cm (No reserve price)

Beautiful original very large and complete upper jaw of a woolly mammoth with well-preserved roots.
This chalk was found in a part of the North Sea that was formerly Doggerland.

Doggerland, also known as the 'Atlantis of the North Sea,' was a vast area that connected England with continental Europe. This region was inhabited by humans for nearly a million years. During the ice ages, when sea levels were low, Doggerland was dry and served as a fertile hunting ground for Neanderthals and later modern humans.

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was an extinct elephant species that lived during the Pleistocene. This mammoth was well adapted to cold climates with its thick coat of long hairs, which ranged from blond and reddish-brown to dark brown and black. They also had a thick layer of fat for extra insulation.

Woolly mammoths were about 2.7 to 3.4 meters tall, comparable to the current African elephant. They lived in herds on the vast mammoth steppe, a cold, dry grassland stretching from Europe to North America.