Mammal Fossils

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Glasgow Museums has a collection of around 100 fossil mammal. This small and diverse collection mostly contains individual fossil bones and teeth that date to the Tertiary and Quaternary. These specimens are from various parts of the world, including Scotland and the rest of Britain. The collection includes a spectacular skeletal specimen of a giant Irish deer, which was found under a bog near Naul, County Dublin. Specimens found in or near Glasgow, from local ice age deposits, include a woolly mammoth tooth, a reindeer antler and woolly rhinoceros remains. There are also fossil mammal remains from the Red Crag deposits of England, the shell of a Glyptodon from Argentina, and the skull of an early fossil horse, Mesohippus, and other horse remains from USA.

Broader term

Fossils