LMX123 - ICE AGE FOSSIL SET OF FIVE VERTEBRAE AND HUMERUS FROM A EUROPEAN GRAY WOLF

Product Description

ID

Canis lupus

FOUND

Maas River - Holland

AGE

PLEISTOCENE:  20,000 - 10,000 million years

SIZE

Vertebrae 2.75" - 1.65" high, humerus 7" long

CONDITION

NO REPAIR OR RESTORATION

NOTE

SCARCE EUROPEAN WOLF FOSSILS
OF IMPECCABLE COMPLETENESS AND
PRESERVATION!

INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX - Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet

Protected deep within the Late Pleistocene gravel bars of the Maas River, this is a set of FIVE cervical and a thoracic vertebrae, along with a complete humerus of an Ice Age Canis lupus (Gray wolf).  Each bone is impeccably preserved and intact.  These are the finest fossil vertebrae and bones of European wolf we have ever seen and this is all we have to sell so we decided to group it all in one set.  They are rare!!!  The humerus shows butchering cuts so it is possible these bones were together from a human hunt.

These were dredged from a clay deposit within the gravel hence, their color and supreme condition.  They came up from the same region along with some skulls so some of these may be from the same wolf but several skulls were found together along with bones so it is likely they were mixed as is typical in gravel deposits.  NO DYES, NO REPAIR and NO RESTORATION.   An excellent reference or display specimen set from Europe's final Ice Age.  

Unlike the Dire wolf (Canis dirus), the Gray wolf (Canis lupus) successfully managed to survive the last Ice Age and is still with us today in parts of the world.  The Gray wolves and coyotes of the last Ice Age were probably very similar in look and behavior to their modern relatives.  First emerging in Eurasia about 1 million years ago, Canis lupus thrived to become one of the most widely distributed mammals by the end of the Pleistocene.  This wolf is a highly mobile predator with a complex social structure and learned to adapt to a wide variety of environments including evergreen forests, frozen tundra and arid deserts.  It preys primarily upon large ungulates (deer, elk, moose), but will kill much smaller game if opportunity presents itself, as well as scavenge a carcass if need be.