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Tiny mammoth/elephant molar?


jesslovesanomalocaris

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Hi I am cataloguing a fossil collection and this had been labelled as 'Scarus' but I can't find any pictures online that confirm this. To me it looks exactly like a mammoth or elephant molar but tiny, it is about 15mm long, 10mm wide. Any ideas?

It was collected in Yately 

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Looks more like a jawbone to me; don't know to what though.  We could be looking at a jaw with the teeth broken off, leaving the roots in the jaw bone.  Just a thought

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15 hours ago, Jaybot said:

Looks more like a jawbone to me; don't know to what though.  We could be looking at a jaw with the teeth broken off, leaving the roots in the jaw bone.  Just a thought

I think u might be right. The side with the holes is where the teeth used to be, the side looking like mammoth molar is actually weathered/broken parts of the roots of teeth inside the jaw.

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