Student found this fossil...any ideas?

[jr.nation88]

One of my students brought this in to try and ID and after much work I have not got very far. A friend pointed me to your sight because of the vast knowledge here. It was found in southeast Missouri, partially buried in a creek bed.

 

[Tnmountains]

They have a fossil section on here and the people are kind and knowledgable and will be able to help you. You are at the right place just wrong section.
Welcome to Treasure Net!

 

[jr.nation88]

thanks, i've posted it over there. did not see that at first!!
thanks for the welcome, great site you have here

 

[jeff of pa]

Although There is a Slight Resemblance,
If this didn't have the Full Teeth



http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~museum/teeth.html

& yours looks More Human,
I'm not Knoledgable enough to Say
Human or other primate.

Very Intresting Though

 

[SeaninNH]

My guess would be horse or donkey teeth.

 

[Felinepeachy]

The tooth in this pic looks like it has a cusp pattern. Can you take a close up of that pattern and post it?

 

[worldtalker]

jr. My Grannie lost those!!!!!!!!!!!All she can do is gum food to death now!!! God Bless Chris

 

[yaxthri]

Doesn't look like a fossil to me, just different strata, layers of sediments, sandwiched together, two of them cracked and forming something that looks like a jaw with teeth fragment but is not...
Sorry, in my opinion this is a so called "pseudofossil"...

 

[traderoftreasures]

My guess would be horse or donkey teeth.

1 and 3/4 inch donkey tooth sure is one big donkey.

 

[Breezie]

They look like cow or bull teeth to me. WELCOME to the forum. Breezie

 

[jr.nation88]

 

[Kieth-Tx]

Prehistoric Bubba teeth?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

My guess would be horse or donkey teeth.

Maybe very large horse?

 

[yaxthri]

Still insisting on the "fossil" theory?...

 

[jr.nation88]

Still insisting on the "fossil" theory?...

Not insisting on it but still trying to get a clear answer. With my major I have studied alot of rocks and yet to have come across a sedimentary rock that has spilt with such perferct/proportionate shapes. I've concluded it is chert not limestone which hurts the fossil idea but my brain is not letting me believe it is just an 'accident'. I submitted the pictures to the Eastern Missouri Palentological Society who was intrigued but also had issues so they asked me to mail it to them and they would study it. It is in route now, so we wait.................

 

[jeff of pa]

Still insisting on the "fossil" theory?...

Not insisting on it but still trying to get a clear answer. With my major I have studied alot of rocks and yet to have come across a sedimentary rock that has spilt with such perferct/proportionate shapes. I've concluded it is chert not limestone which hurts the fossil idea but my brain is not letting me believe it is just an 'accident'. I submitted the pictures to the Eastern Missouri Palentological Society who was intrigued but also had issues so they asked me to mail it to them and they would study it. It is in route now, so we wait.................

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[falcolnx]

HIPPO TEETH!