Oggetto archeologico
Elephas (Paleoxodon) antiquus, tuskUp one level |
Civic Museum Paleontology and Palaeo-ethonology “Decio de Lorentiis”. Elephas
antiquus, tusk. Riss-Würm interglacial period. 120-80,000 years.
The Elephas antiquus, a very large proboscidea (4-5 m), progenitor of today’s African elephant, appeared in Europe around 700 thousand years ago and survived three glaciations, becoming extinct definitively at the end of the Pleistocene period. The exhibited tusk, broken into six parts recomposed perfectly comes from the Castro cliffs and has been attributed to a specimen which lived in the last interglacial period between 120 and 80 thousand years ago.
Further information
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| Identificazione | ||
| Inventory number: | 85522 | |
| Precedenti localizzazioni | ||
| Provenance: | Gift G. Colafati | |
| Reperimento | ||
| Place of discovery: | Vineyard, Grotta del Conte, Castro (Le) | |
| Oggetto | ||
| Class and ware: | fossil | |
| Cronologia | ||
| Period: | Riss-Würm interglacial period | |
| Datazione certa secolo: | 120-80,000 years | |
| Dati tecnici | ||
| Width: | 17 | |
| Length: | 184,5 | |
| Varie: | Unit cm | |
