May 162011
A huge tooth like this one discovered in Serbia is an exciting find.
Mammoth or Mastodon?
Location: Svetozar Miletic, Serbia
Fossil Collector: Ivan K.
[Editor's note: A wonderful fossil find! This huge tooth is almost certainly that of an ancient elephant. Do any of our collectors know which species it is? Please leave a comment.]
I am certain it is one of the mammoths, rather than mastodon or gomphethere. Can’t help much past that.
It is either a mammoth or an elephant. Mastodons have nipple-like tooth as their name suggests (mastos= tit in greek). It could be an ancestral mammoth, more likely. If you mesured the average enamel thickness on the occlusal area and the height of the bigest plate from the side maybe we could tell more.