Who Collects Pleistocene Mammal Teeth?

[GatorBoy]

 

[Harry Pristis]

If it's a tooth, Digger, I don't recognize it. My best guess is that it is a geofact.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Here are some lamine (llama-like) camel teeth:

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[GatorBoy]

I found this tooth quite a while back while out treking and was hoping that it fit into your thread Harry. I have not been able to place it, but maybe one of you may help. (If it doesn't belong here let me know.) It is an inch wide, by an inch high.

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The bottom/inside has a bluish tint to it.

I have no idea if it is or isn't but the first closest looking tooth that came to mind was dugong

 

[BenjiDaa]

What is this?

 

[BenjiDaa]

 

[GatorBoy]

Looks like deer or camel teeth in a section of jawbone.
By the color of the matrix stuck to it I'm going to guess camel.

 

[Harry Pristis]

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I think we've had a guess at this jaw recently. I don't think it's Pleistocene, so it doesn't fit this thread. I think it's much, much earlier. It's not camel.

The fossettes remind me of horse, but it's not a horse that occurs in Florida. Did this come out of the Jahn Day Beds in Oregon?

 

[Harry Pristis]

I have no idea if it is or isn't but the first closest looking tooth that came to mind was dugong

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Those are manatee teeth, not dugong.

 

[Inyo]

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[old digger]

I beg to differ, but it is a tooth and not a geofact or cone. This tooth most likely pre dates your Pleistocene items.

If it's a tooth, Digger, I don't recognize it. My best guess is that it is a geofact.

 

[Harry Pristis]

I beg to differ, but it is a tooth and not a geofact or cone. This tooth most likely pre dates your Pleistocene items.

Please tell us what animal produced this tooth. As I said, I don't recognize the object as a tooth, but that's not dispositive. Tell us what you think.

 

[old digger]

I'll tell you what I'll do, I really just want to know what animal it may have come from, so I will send it to you so you can make an assessment as to what it species it may have come from. It looks like a pre-molar tooth without the root attached. I appreciate your knowledge and am looking forward to hear what you think.

 

[Harry Pristis]

I'll tell you what I'll do, I really just want to know what animal it may have come from, so I will send it to you so you can make an assessment as to what it species it may have come from. It looks like a pre-molar tooth without the root attached. I appreciate your knowledge and am looking forward to hear what you think.

A bold proposal, Digger . . . I'm up for it. I'll send it back to you with an opinion.

 

[Harry Pristis]

In the meantime, here are a couple of cat teeth:

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[Harry Pristis]

I found this tooth quite a while back while out treking and was hoping that it fit into your thread Harry. I have not been able to place it, but maybe one of you may help. (If it doesn't belong here let me know.) It is an inch wide, by an inch high.

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The bottom/inside has a bluish tint to it.

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!

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[Perico]

This is a modern pig tooth that you identified for me Harry. Erupted correct? My next question would be, were there modern pigs during the Pleistocene epoch? It was found in the Peace River Florida.

 

[Harry Pristis]

No failure of imagination if I was able to ID the object as Sus from this image alone. It does have the outline of a P4, doesn't it.

No domestic pigs in the North American Pleistocene. Those pigs arrived for the first time with Spanish explorers. There are many, many feral pigs living along the Peace River. They constitute an ecological liability.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Here are two small cat fossils from the Peace River.

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[GatorBoy]

I screened this out of the Peace River two days ago I was pretty sure it was white tailed deer but not positive now looking closer