LM41-010 - EUROPEAN FOSSIL WILD BOAR COMPLETE MAIN MOLAR FROM CAVE HYENA DEN

Product Description

ID

Sus scrofa

FOUND

Cave Deposit - 
Ardennes Forest, Belgium

AGE

PLEISTOCENE:  150,000 - 50,000 years

SIZE

1.75" long

CONDITION

COMPLETE, NO REPAIR
 OR FABRICATION

NOTE

EXTREMELY INTERESTING FOSSIL
FOUND CAVE THAT WAS ONCE
FORMER HYENA DEN.  PURE WHITE
PRESERVATION TYPICAL OF CAVE
FOSSILS.  

FOUND WITH CAVE HYENA REMAINS
AND A BABY WOOLLY RHINO TOOTH!

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authenticity / information sheet

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Collected in a Pleistocene cave deposit in the Ardennes Forest, with many of the fossils buried in sedimentary chalk that had built up over millennia on the cave floor, this is a perfect main molar tooth from a prehistoric wild boar. 

The layer these boar fossils were found was a layer AT THE BOTTOM of a HIGHER layer of Cave Hyena fossils.  It seems that a long-term occupation of Cave Hyena existed and some fed on these boar fossils found in the same deposit.  Juvenile Woolly Rhino fossils were also found associated with these Wild Boar fossils.  These specimens provide an educational example of prey and predator relationships in the final Ice Age of Europe.  

 A highly uncommon fossil and a perfect reference specimen for any museum or educational collection to demonstrate the predatory nature of how Cave Hyena's killed and drug their prey back to their lairs in the caves.

The cave that produced this remarkable fossil specimen was relatively dry and the state of preservation of all fossil remains that were collected there, is of the highest degree.  Wild boar remains from the Ice Age are rather uncommon Pleistocene fossils and usually, all that is found is an occasional tusk.