today..horse tooth insitu.

[GatorBoy]

We do these all the time with arrowheads and other artifacts so I thought it would be a nice addition here.

 

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[BeachComber7]

Nice, you have some good finds there! Like the tooth!

 

[GatorBoy]

Thank you. Besides lots of turtle shell and unidentifiable fragments I also got one alligator scute and a couple rodent vertebrae and a few coprolite "poo" probably alligator.

 

[Age_old]

Nice, thats a cool site. Can we get a pic of the chewing surface on the horse tooth?

 

[GatorBoy]

Sure.. I think it must be bottom front. More of a cutting rather than chewing surface.

 

[Age_old]

Sure.. I think it must be bottom front. More of a cutting rather than chewing surface.

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Are you sure the tooth is whole? There is no tooth the horse's mouth with a edge like that. Maybe it is broken in half, and the edge was a result of the break.

 

[GatorBoy]

There is enamel all the way around. Here are some more photos. you know more about this stuff than I do.

 

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[Age_old]

Ok, I see now. Thanks for more photos!

I think you have a rare find. That's a un-erupted juvenile horse tooth.

In english, it's a tooth that was IN the jaw of the horse when it died; the tooth never finished developing. The tooth was never used, that's why there is no visible 'chewing' surface.

If you can imagine a baby horse, that still had it's first teeth. Underneath it's 'baby' teeth, the adult teeth are growing. That's what I think you have. One sign of that is the 'scrunchy' look the enamel makes at the bottom of the tooth.

Very cool find, man!

 

[GatorBoy]

Very good info..thanks man.. I got it without the layman stuff ha..all the same ..very well described. Thanks for helping!

 

[Age_old]

Haha I thought you would get it, but I wanted to be sure.

 

[BeachComber7]

post the 'poo' please? I have a new post today same thing, tooth insitu. Love documenting my finds digitally!