Mammoth bone shards from the North Sea – three shards, front view
Mammoth bone shards from the North Sea – close-up of honeycomb inner bone
Mammoth bone shards from the North Sea – close-up of a bulk bin of shards
Mammoth bone shards from the North Sea – spread of long shards
Mammoth bone shards from the North Sea – close-up of porous bone
Mammoth bone shards from the North Sea – pile of shards
Mammoth bone shards from the North Sea – two shards beside a coin for scale
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Mammoth bone shards from the North Sea – three shards, front viewMammoth bone shards from the North Sea – close-up of honeycomb inner boneMammoth bone shards from the North Sea – close-up of a bulk bin of shardsMammoth bone shards from the North Sea – spread of long shardsMammoth bone shards from the North Sea – close-up of porous boneMammoth bone shards from the North Sea – pile of shardsMammoth bone shards from the North Sea – two shards beside a coin for scale

Mammoth Bone Shards - Fossil Specimen

Southern North Sea (Doggerland), trawled by Dutch fishing boats
Size: Small
Quality: Standard
Prix:
$10.00 CAD
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Specifications

  • Animal Kingdoms Vertébrés
  • Fossil Era Cénozoïque (il y a 0 à 66 millions d'années)
  • UV Reactive Non Reactive
  • Mineral Families Carbonates
  • Treatments Natural/None

Description

Locality: Southern North Sea (Doggerland), trawled by Dutch fishing boats, Netherlands

Era: Late Pleistocene
Geological Age: about 60,000 to 15,000 years ago (Late Pleistocene)

Description: These mammoth bone fragments were brought up from the floor of the southern North Sea by Dutch fishing boats. During the last ice age, sea level was so much lower that this area was dry land, part of a plain now called Doggerland that joined Britain to mainland Europe. Woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, reindeer and other animals of the cold "mammoth steppe" roamed it.

As the ice melted, the sea rose and drowned Doggerland, and its bones were left on the sea floor. Since the 1960s, Dutch beam trawlers have hauled up many thousands of fossil bones in their nets, mostly around the Brown Bank, and landed them at ports such as IJmuiden. Radiocarbon dates place most of this material between about 60,000 and 15,000 years ago.

The Naturalis museum in Leiden now holds about 9,000 mammoth specimens, most of them from the North Sea.

Woolly mammoths were extinct relatives of today's elephants. They grazed mainly on grasses and other plants, and their long, curved tusks could reach about 4 m (13 ft).

Each fragment shows part of the dense outer wall of the bone and the porous, honeycomb-like inner bone.

Small
Approximate Size of 1 piece: 6.5cm x 2.5cm x 1.5cm
Approximate Weight of 1 piece: 25g

Medium
Approximate Size of 1 piece: 7cm x 3cm x 2.5cm
Approximate Weight of 1 piece: 55g

Large
Approximate Size of 1 piece:  7.5cm x 5.5cm x 4cm
Approximate Weight of 1 piece: 115g

Quantity: 1pc

We do our best to buy quality products- although not every rock is the same. If you choose to purchase the "staff pick option", we will select the best of the batch for you. Otherwise, it will be at random from the larger batch we have in stock.

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