Mammoth Tooth Plate
Mammuthus columbi
A slab of enamel ridges like a stack of washboards, from Florida's Columbian mammoth.
- Typical size
- 2–10 in
- How often it turns up
- Rare
- Collecting
- Archaeological, leave in place
- Handling
- Safe to handle
Vertebrate fossils collected from state-owned land or submerged bottoms in Florida require a fossil permit from the Florida Museum of Natural History. Beach-washed finds above the waterline are generally fine, but know your site.
How to tell it apart
- Parallel enamel ridges packed together
- Dark brown, very dense
- Often broken into plate fragments
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