Record number JS199
   
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        Simple name fossil
        Full name ascending ramus of a mammoth jaw
        Other name steppe mammoth
        Named collection Beeston Mammoth
        Classified name Mammalia & Proboscidea & Elephantidae & Mammuthus trogontherii
            System Linnaean
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        Note Simon Parfitt suggests it could be part of an ascending ramus of an elephant. Initially mistaken for hippo jaw
        Brief description Fossil, large jaw-like bone (mammoth ascending ramus; ex situ from the Lower Pleistocene deposits, Cromer Forest-bed Formation (Beeston Member) of Beeston Regis beach, by the revetment, opposite discovery of elephant jaw JS151; 50 m east of Beeston datum, Beeston Regis, Norfolk, UK
   
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        Form ascending ramus
   
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        Place & & Beeston Regis & Norfolk & UK
            Site name Beeston Regis beach
                Note4 by the revetment, opposite discovery of elephant jaw JS151; 50 m east of Beeston datum
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            Coordinates geocoordinates : 52°56'37.56"N, 1°13'38.46"E
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            Stratigraphy rock : Cromer Forest-bed Formation & Beeston Member &
            Stratigraphy stage : Pastonian
            Stratigraphy age : Pleistocene & Lower Pleistocene
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                Note4 set in iron-rich sediment of sand, gravel and clay
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        Method ex situ find
        Person collector : Stewart, Jonathan
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    Recorder MRW : 5.11.2019
   
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        Condition fragile and fragmented & repaired
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