Perico
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- May 29, 2012
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Not certain. Is the tooth fractured or whole? Great find!
I experienced a failure of imagination, Dennis. It IS a tooth . . . It's the front half of an upper second molar from a Sus scrofa (a domestic pig)! The individual died young, before this tooth had erupted. It is basically an enamel cap with undeveloped roots. Score for Old Digger!
Being as fossilized as this tooth is, could it have been from an immature Dinohyus (Large Pig) similar to those that were found in Nebraska, north of Omaha.