Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
November 21, 1817
Primary Source Reference:
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 21 Nov 1817
Notes:
Peale's specimen of a mastodon tooth was probably similar to the mastodon molar tooth from an older adult animal pictured here, sent by William Clark in 1807 to Thomas Jefferson, who sent it to the American Philosophical Society, which later gave it to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Peale's Common Name:
Mammoth
Current Common Name:
Mastodon
Current Scientific Name
Mammut americanum
