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Woolly mammoth — Mammuthus primigenius

SAGE Museum Deep Time scientific dossier

Artist / Creator

Smithsonian Institution

Date / Period

Pleistocene · Pleistocene.

Object Type

composite

Medium

museum_reconstruction

About This Object

Geologic period: Pleistocene

Age: Pleistocene.

Feeding: Primarily grazing herbivore.

Evidence: Skeletons, teeth, tusks and exceptionally preserved frozen carcasses provide direct evidence for woolly mammoth anatomy.

Why it matters: Woolly mammoths connect fossil evidence with the extraordinary preservation possible in frozen environments, including hair and other soft tissues in some specimens.

Plain Language Identity: A cold-adapted elephant relative of the Pleistocene Ice Ages.

What You Are Looking At: A composite skeletal display representing Mammuthus primigenius.

Ecosystem: Pleistocene steppe-tundra environments of northern Eurasia and North America.

Source Urls: https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour/current-exhibits/deep-time-virtual-tour-fossil-list; https://www.si.edu/object/nmnhpaleobiology_3447777

Enrichment Method: SAGE curated research pass; title + scientific name + source scene matched; chronology and taxonomy conflicts retained rather than silently corrected; evidence separated from inference

Scientific name: Mammuthus primigenius

Evidence / representation: smithsonian_3d_model_render

Why It Is In This SAGE Exhibit

smithsonian_3d_model_render

After the Dinosaurs: Mammals, Ice Ages and the World We Inherited.

Provenance

Smithsonian Deep Time source scene: Ice Age Extinction Event: 1

Visual source institution: Wikimedia Commons

Exhibition History

Included in the SAGE Museum Dinosaurs & Deep Time staging exhibit.

Collection & Credit

Media license: CC0

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

Subjects & Themes

Mammuthus primigenius Pleistocene composite Ice Age Extinction Event: 1 After the Dinosaurs

ORIGINAL COLLECTION SOURCE

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