Iijoki Mammoth
Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) at
Finland unspecified forest in Finland

Biography

☨ ⚪ Iijoki Mammoth
Museum locations
Present / last location:	Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM), in Sweden

Date of arrival

	Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM), Stockholm, Sweden from Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden

Identification

Museum accession number	NRM ??
Lab Code	Ua-14190

Description
Species:	Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
Sex and age:	, unknown age
Characteristics:	only molar found
Dentition
Incisives	unknown
Molar plates:	23
Molar length:	230 mm
Molar width:	73 mm
Molar heigth:	114 mm
Molar heigth:	114 mm
Molar lamellar frequency:
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Finland unspecified forest
Death
Dead:	†
Death location:	Finland unspecified forest Iljoki river, Finland
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Finland unspecified forest, in Finland

Date of arrival

	Finland unspecified forest
Record history
History of updates	0000-00-00

Latest document update	2021-07-13 05:12:49

† Iijoki Mammoth is a dead Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), , who died at Finland unspecified forest, in Finland, .

Museum locationThe Museum specimen remains of this animal is within the collection at Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM), in Stockholm, Sweden.

Origin

Iijoki Mammoth was born wild at Finland unspecified forest.

Comments / pictures

Gifted 1751 to Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden by Professor in Physics C. F. Menander, later archbishop in Uppsala.

Described at Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm; by Malmgren 1874-75, Holm 1904, Korvenkontio 1915.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2026). Iijoki Mammoth, Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) located at Finland unspecified forest in Finland. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 18 February 2026 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=10770. (archived at the Wayback machine)