Fairbanks Creek Mammoth
Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) at
Fairbanks Creek in United States

Biography

☨ ⚪ Fairbanks Creek Mammoth

Alternative name:	Effie
Museum locations
Present / last location:	American Museum of Natural History, in United States

Date of arrival

	American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States

Identification

Museum accession number	AMNH ?

Description
Species:	Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
Sex and age:	, unknown age
Status:	fossil
Characteristics:	mummified head, trunk, and left forelimb
Origin
Born:	* 21,300 years ago (±1,300) wild
Birth place:	in North America unspecified forest
Death
Dead:	†21,300 years ago (±1,300)
Death location:	Fairbanks Creek
Death reason:	:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Fairbanks Creek, in United States

Date of arrival

	Fairbanks Creek
Record history
History of updates	2021-07-07

Latest document update	2021-07-07 02:03:06
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† Fairbanks Creek Mammoth is a dead fossil Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), , who died at Fairbanks Creek, in United States, .

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at American Museum of Natural History, in New York, United States.

Origin

Fairbanks Creek Mammoth was born wild at North America unspecified forest.

Comments / pictures

Mummified head, trunk, and left forelimb of a mammoth calf. It was recovered from muck near prehistoric scraper

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Fairbanks Creek Mammoth, Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) located at American Museum of Natural History in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=10825. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Dixon, J.E., 1999. Bones, Boats, & Bison: Archaeology and the First Colonization of Western North America. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 322 pp
Farrand, W.R., 1961. Frozen mammoths and modern geology. Science, pp. 729-735.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammoth_specimens

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