Mastodon Tooth

[samuel_schumaker]

I actually found this earlier this summer while artifact hunting in one of our local creeks, I had a couple Kansas State Archeologist's verify it, Its a tooth from a Mastodon, It was laying upside down on a wet sandbar with just the roots sticking up, i just thought it was a bone but i picked it up and looked at it for the fun of it and i was shocked, the teeth segments are really shiny still, very suprised that the roots were still in as good as shape as they were being in a creek and rolling around with all the rocks, They figured it hadnt been in the creek too long and must have washed out of the bank not too far upstream, I plan to do a bunch more looking in that area as soon as spring arrives, Just thought i would share this with everyone, This is my first post, i have always looked through the threads here and love what i see, I just started metal detecting last summer and still have a lot to learn. thanks for a great learning sight, Good luck everyone, Sam

 

[birdman]

Awesome find!

 

[cntrydncr1]

wow that must be worth a fortune, knowing what 5" sharks teeth are worth! congrats

 

[dneyedli@res1.mts.net]

Very cool! I would love to find that. Is there an approximate date?
Nice going!
Dave.

 

[Michaelangelo]

My God-that thing is huge!!! Can you post more pics so we can see it better?

 

[kc10bull]

That tooth is fantastic. I would use that as my avitar on this form. What an outstanding discovery.

 

[fossis]

Very nice find, I have one that I traded for that came from KS.
Welcome to Treasure-Net.

Fossis..............

 

[EpsilonMinus]

If only this guy had a gold filling! Awesome find, man!

 

[samuel_schumaker]

thanks guys, i will take some better pics with the digital camera, this picture is actually from my camera phone as you can probably tell its not the best

 

[bearbqd]

That thing is crazy! What a find.

 

[Deepdiger60]

What a great find those teeth where made to eat trees , if the tooth is there maybe the ivory tusk is also ? WTO

 

[Sundancer]

Very nice tooth!

~Mike

 

[bearbqd]

better pictures please. me want to see

 

[dirty_digger]

I have Phytosaurus teeth in a shadow box

 

[schoser]

Arent mastodon teeth more flat? To me that looks like sharks teeth?? Either way...very cool find...wow!

 

[sapphire miner]

I have a baby Mastodon Tooth, it looks much different than the Tooth you found.
I did not find my tooth, I paid $ for it at a Dino store. During this adventure to go Dino diggen/hunting,
in known locality, I stop at this great store in the area and when I spied this tooth, well lets just say it had to have me.

 

[Produce Guy]

WOW,how much money would you get if you stuck that under your pillow.

 

[RGINN]

Cool find, and get more pics. That's a shape I'm not familiar with for mastodon teeth, as they were herbivores and their teeth were flat. Could be just the pic or the angle it was taken. Maybe you got a completely different animal and it would be cool to find out what it was.

 

[Squishy]

Cool find, and get more pics. That's a shape I'm not familiar with for mastodon teeth, as they were herbivores and their teeth were flat. Could be just the pic or the angle it was taken. Maybe you got a completely different animal and it would be cool to find out what it was.

I've never seen one, but Mastodon translates to: "nipple tooth", so that seems to fit.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Here is a link that might shed some light on this subject.

http://www.paleodirect.com/lm15-015.htm