Exceptionally preserved Stegodon fossil mo teeth, 590 g

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Exceptionally preserved Stegodon fossil molar teeth, 590 g. Weight: 590 g = 1 lb. 5oz. Height: 8 cm = 3 in. Width: 9 cm = 3.5 in. Provenance: dig out in Borneo, Indonesia Age: 11.6 million years 4,100 years BC Condition: Perfect for the age, fossilized into rock all the ways around. Stegodon (meaning "roofed tooth" from the Greek words stegein 'to cover' and odous 'tooth'), is a genus of the extinct subfamily Stegodontinae of the order Proboscidea. It was assigned to the family Elephantidae (Abel, 1919), but has also been placed in Stegodontidae (R. L. Carroll, 1988).[1] Stegodonts were present from 11.6 mya to 4,100 years ago. They lived in large parts of Asia during the Pliocene and Pleistocene, and locally in Indonesia into the Holocene epoch Low Estimate: 2000; High Estimate: 4000; Original: Yes;

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