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Could use some help with identifying these mammal teeth. They ( 2 teeth) and the shattered jawbone were weathering out of the Beaumont Mud in the surf on McFaddin Beach, near Galveston Tx.. 

Thank you for any help!

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I think this is deciduous bovid (bison or cow).  For comparison:

 

Bovid deciduous premolars v

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Permanent teeth v

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http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page

 

What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

---Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

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I'm not one for vertebrate paleontology (least of all terrestrial!) but, I'll follow the TFF tradition, and diagnose this as...

 

A moo-er chewer!

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