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Bear Tooth Fossils?


Eric R.

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I recently found these in a box with other bone? carved objects (some appear Alaska/Inuit) from an estate of a gentleman who recently passed here in Eastern Washington and lived a little in Idaho but mostly SE Washington and was born in 1941.  They look like some kind of bear teeth or parts thereof but I am not educated enough to even be able to say if they are fossil or the real tooth?  I think they are fossil based on my knowledge of petrified wood samples but really looking for some expertise to help me ID them.  Specifically, if they are bear - what type?  Any and all input appreciated.

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They do look like fossilized cave bear teeth that I've seen from Romania, but I'd wait to hear from some people that are more specialized in mammal fossils.

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They appear to be bear to me ... upper canine on the right, and the next 2 lowers ..  but they kind of look like modern to me. But then again I am just an average hunter, not a paleontologist. 

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They look like real, large, relatively modern mammal canines.

 

Seems like these canines may be hard to definitively classify (even if you know the provenance):

 

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