Mammal tooth found with (sub-?)fossil molluscs

[Mahnmut]

Dear fellow forum members,

I am going through old boxes, in this case with some of my rare own finds (as opposed to bought, gifted and inherited fossils)

These I found at a coast of the mediterranean, where the waves gnawed at soft sandstone. On a ledge below the fossiliferous layer there where fragments and some intact shells with and without remaining matrix, and this tooth, without, but weathered and feeling heavy.

The shells I could identify (Diodora, Arca) do have living species, Diodora goes back to the Miocene, not sure about the others.

So the age could be miocene to "subrecent", or maybe the tooth is much younger than the shells, impossible to tell.

Who can tell me whose tooth this was?

Thanks

J

 

[Meganeura]

I could be wrong, but that looks like a very senile herbivore tooth - horse, cow, bison. I'm not sure you'll be able to get a definitive ID beyond that due to how worn away it is though.

[Coco]

Hi,

 

Yes, very old animal, so I won’t risk any name.

 

Coco

[hemipristis]

Very nice murex