Nilsiä Mammoth
Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) at
Finland unspecified forest in Finland

Biography

☨ ⚪ Nilsiä Mammoth
Museum locations
Present / last location:	Finnish Museum of Natural History, in Finland

Date of arrival

1873-00-00	Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland

Identification

Museum accession number	MZH ??
Lab Code	Hela-281

Description
Species:	Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
Sex and age:	, unknown age
Status:	fossil
Characteristics:	only Molar
Dentition
Incisives	unknown
Molar plates:	17+
Molar length:	227+ mm
Molar width:	82 mm
Molar heigth:	163 mm
Molar heigth:	163 mm
Molar lamellar frequency:
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Finland unspecified forest
Death
Dead:	†
Death location:	Finland unspecified forest
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Finland unspecified forest, in Finland

Date of arrival

	Finland unspecified forest
Record history
History of updates	0000-00-00

Latest document update	2021-06-27 12:56:18

† Nilsiä Mammoth is a dead fossil Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), , who died at Finland unspecified forest, in Finland, .

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at Finnish Museum of Natural History, in Helsinki, Finland, since 1873-00-00.

Origin

Nilsiä Mammoth was born wild at Finland unspecified forest.

Comments / pictures

Described by Finnish Museum of Natural
History, University of Helsinki; Malmgren
1874-1875, Ramsay 1900, Korvenkontio
1915.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Nilsiä Mammoth, Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) located at Finnish Museum of Natural History in Finland. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=10773. (archived at the Wayback machine)