hi,

I bet on the latter, but it would be interesting to have parts of the jawbone.

ciao luca.

Bogdan:

You may find this link useful:

http://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/fileadmin/user_upload/documents-nmr/Publicaties/Deinsea/Deinsea_09/DSA9_006_Burns_77-85.pdf

Best

Syed

Sorry, but I don`t have jawbone parts. That had been very good for understanding the real issue.

Hi,

it seems to be a Mammuthus, but it is difficult to say if there are malformations.

Regards,

Luca

Hi,

this article deals with pathological deformations of molars of Mannuthus:

Karl-Dietrich Adam, Anomalien des Zahnwechsels bei Elephas primigenius aus dem Quartär des Oberrheins. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde B 211 (Stuttgart 1994).

https://archive.org/stream/stuttgarterbeitr2012191994staa#page/n279/mode/2up

http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30064225#page/281/mode/1up

Best regards,

Stefan

These look like malformations to me. I'm attaching a couple of papers showing various types of dental anomalies.