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Zygorhiza ?


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Zygorhiza ?

Tooth measures 2-1/2" long

Eocene, 40 million years ago

Taylor Co. Florida, USA

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Zygorhiza ?

Tooth measures 2-1/2" long

Eocene, 40 million years ago

Taylor Co. Florida, USA

It appears to be an archaeocete tooth, and Zygorhiza is the most common species in the Ocala Group limestone.

You don't specify the size of the crown - length and width. I suspect that your 2-1/2" measurement is the height of the root and crown.

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What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

---Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

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