Lerdal Mammoth
Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) at
Lerdal, Rättvik in Sweden

Biography
dead elephant ☨ ♀ Lerdal Mammoth  dead elephant
Museum locations
Present / last location:Uppsala Museum of Evolution, in Sweden

Date of arrival

Uppsala Museum of Evolution, Uppsala, Sweden

Identification

Museum accession number PMU ?

Description
Species:Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
Sex and age:Female ♀, unknown age
Status:fossil
Characteristics: tusk L: 35 cm
Dentition
Incisivestusker
Origin
Born:* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:
Death location: Lerdal, Rättvik
Death reason: :
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Lerdal, Rättvik, in Sweden

Date of arrival

Lerdal, Rättvik
Record history
History of updates2021-07-07

Latest document update2021-07-13 00:27:16
Google map

† Lerdal Mammoth is a dead fossil Female ♀ Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), , who died at Lerdal, Rättvik, in Sweden, .

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at Uppsala Museum of Evolution, in Uppsala, Sweden.


Origin

Lerdal Mammoth was born wild .


Comments / pictures

In the summer of 1956 a fragment of a mammoth tusk was discovered at Rättvik in Dalecarlia, Central Sweden.

It lay somewhere in the upper 2.5 m of the ground moraine which is almost 30 m thick in the neighbourhood of the finding place.

The piece is 35 cm long, and the circumference at its ends is 22.5 and 19.5 cm, respectively. Very likely it is a part of a comparatively small tusk of approximately the same size as that described by Heintz (1956) from Skreia, S. Norway, and thus belonged to a female.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Lerdal Mammoth, Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) located at Uppsala Museum of Evolution in Sweden. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 23 April 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=10831. (archived at the Wayback machine)


Sources used for this article is among others:


Litterature about Lerdal, Rättvik

Recommended Litterature:

Random literature As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases
Links

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

External relevant links (Opens in new window)

Search more on the web for Lerdal Mammoth

(The name Lerdal Mammoth is already submitted into the link, just click on the link for relevant results)


CategoriesUppsala Museum of Evolution Taxidermy | Elephants from Lerdal, Rättvik | Sweden |




About this documentWebsite online since 1995. This document was created: . Latest update: 2021-07-13 00:27:16 included characters with valid HTML5 Valid CSS



Disclaimer & Privacy
Elephant Consultant Dan Koehl
Sweden: Kårbodavägen 39, S-184 97 Ljusterö
Cambodia: c/o Lindas, Sok San Road, Siem Reap
Thailand: c/o Maetaman Homestay, Chiang Mai
Email: webmaster@elephant.se

Your ip: 18.216.186.122

Visitors to Website
For Live update, click!

Webdesign by AumPage Network Aumpage Network