Cleaned up tooth

[Perico]

Last night I finally had time to cleaned up the Glyptodont tooth and protected it with a product I bought at the Fossil Show in Tampa. It is called Starbond. It is very thin and 100% cyanoacrylate. Here are before and after pictures.

 

[Perico]

Sorry guys pictures are not posting how I would like. Obviously the pictures of the tooth without gravel are the after pictures.

 

[old digger]

You did an excellent job!

 

[GatorBoy]

Looks great I've gotta ask how did you clean it?

 

[Perico]

Thanks guys! The gravel came out without difficulty with a paper clip slipped under first gravel piece. They were not locked in tight and once one piece came out the rest fell out very easily. Wiped grooves with a moist paper towel.

 

[Perico]

Hitting the river Saturday. Been a while for me and need to do it before the rains come. Hopefully these rains won't raise the river too much.

 

[curious kat]

...WOW...that's really nice & very exciting that you found it! Do you have a picture of the animal (one like it lol ) that goes with it for us dummies? Would be nice to have one posted...

 

[Harry Pristis]

...WOW...that's really nice & very exciting that you found it! Do you have a picture of the animal (one like it lol ) that goes with it for us dummies? Would be nice to have one posted...

Here's one to give you an idea:

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[Perico]

I read the post you did a few days ago and you posted a skull of a Glyptotherium along with a Seismosaurus skeleton. Same animal. Thanks for the compliment!

 

[curious kat]

....Thanks for the picture Harry! Seems I proved my "dummy-ness" by not realizing my "Glyptotherium" was your " Glyptodont" lol....is Glyptotherium a classification or...? Did I miss a post Perico telling how & where you found it, guess I should check. Sorry, love this stuff but don't know that much about it yet.

 

[Harry Pristis]

....Thanks for the picture Harry! Seems I proved my "dummy-ness" by not realizing my "Glyptotherium" was your " Glyptodont" lol....is Glyptotherium a classification or...? Did I miss a post Perico telling how & where you found it, guess I should check. Sorry, love this stuff but don't know that much about it yet.

The phylogeny is organized like this:
Superfamily GLYPTODONTOIDEA
...Family PAMPATHERIIDAE (pampatheres, giant armadillos)
......Holmesina sp. for example
...Family GLYPTODONTIDAE (glyptodonts)
......Glyptotherium arizonae
......Glyptotherium floridanus
......et al.
The species within the more-inclusive Family Glyptodontidae are glyptodonts.

More narrowly, those species within the Genus Glyptotherium, then, are glyptotheres.

 

[curious kat]

Thanks very much Harry for the "lesson", you sound like you're a fan of this incredible creature. I've seen plenty of modern day armadillo on road trips down south, but all were road kill or purses...sadly.

 

[GatorBoy]

I most say.. Your avatar photo reminds me of my mother's humongous cat (28 toes!)... He's such a ham!

 

[Harry Pristis]

Thanks very much Harry for the "lesson", you sound like you're a fan of this incredible creature. I've seen plenty of modern day armadillo on road trips down south, but all were road kill or purses...sadly.

Yes, kat, they are commonly road-kill, in part because of their inclination when startled to jump straight up in the air. Now, if I could only get the armadillo which digs in my yard to go play in the traffic!!

The expanded phylogeny looks like this:
Order CINGULATA
...Superfamily DASYPODOIDEA
........Family DASYPODIDAE (armadillos)
.............Dasypus sp. (for example)
...Superfamily GLYPTODONTOIDEA
........Family PAMPATHERIIDAE (pampatheres, giant armadillos)
.............Holmesina sp. for example
........Family GLYPTODONTIDAE (glyptodonts)
.............Glyptotherium arizonae
.............Glyptotherium floridanus
.............et al.

So, you can see from this phylogeny that giant armadillos are more closely related to glyptodonts (both in the same superfamily) than either of those taxa are related to armadillos (a different superfamily).

In the first image, the upper left row and the far right column of two are
from the modern dasypodid, Dasypus novemcinctus. The larger osteoderms in the first image are from an extinct Pleistocene form, Dasypus bellus.

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In the second image, three D. novemcinctus osteoderms are shown with two giant armadillo osteoderms.

 

[curious kat]

.... GatorBoy...you're right about my cat & You're moms! Wow...28 toes...wonder if it makes a difference in how they move/climb with those "extras"?

Harry...that's so interesting...you are an expert! Thank you for the new info.! Do you own some of those osteoderms from the giant armadillo? And....I didn't know that our modern day little fellows "jump straight up in the air when startled"...picturing that...funny...but hazardous for them when near roads. Wonder if something like that occurred with the "big guys" way back when, maybe to heavy though? Hope your yard visitor isn't to destructive, guess they dig a lot?

 

[Harry Pristis]

[snip]
Harry...that's so interesting...you are an expert! Thank you for the new info.! Do you own some of those osteoderms from the giant armadillo? And....I didn't know that our modern day little fellows "jump straight up in the air when startled"...picturing that...funny...but hazardous for them when near roads. Wonder if something like that occurred with the "big guys" way back when, maybe to heavy though? Hope your yard visitor isn't to destructive, guess they dig a lot?

The modern armadillos, Dasypus novemcinctus, live in burrows by day and forage for insect grubs by night, digging characteristic triangular holes in my lawn. No one knows how the giant armadillos of the Pleistocene lived - their habitus - including what they ate.

Yes, I do have multiple surplus osteoderms from giant armadillos (both species) and from the large glyptothere from Florida. Send an e-mail to pristis at aol dot com to arrange to acquire specimens.

My apologies to Perico for the highjack of this thread.

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[curious kat]

Yes, sorry Perico....but also "Thank You" for starting this highly interesting post...and very cute avatar sloth

And Harry....sorry about your garden holes...but at least they're not skunks that smell & dig, like we have, unless you have those to? And thanks for the info & address!