Id For A Non? Fossil Tooth

[MOROPUS]

This is a strnge tooth for me.The thing, above all, that make this strange for me, are the two roots.It was found near an archaeological site.Thanks!

[Gatorman]

Here's some better pictures.

[MOROPUS]

thanks for the improvement! :lol: And ID? Any idea?

[Harry Pristis]

Here's some better pictures.

That was mighty nice of you, Anson, to make MOROPUS' images viewable. That'll get old fast, I suspect. LOL

MOROPUS . . .

Your tooth appears to be a premolar from an Artiodactyl, maybe a species of Bos or close. I've posted a pic of a similar tooth from an American Bison sp.

I sure wish I could help you with your other ID questions, but I cannot take the time to open your very-large images.

When I make a SHQ image with my six megapixel camera, the resulting image is 39 inches wide by 29 inches high. I have to reduce the image file-size with my editing software to even work with it conveniently.

You can produce excellent photos with the Standard Quality (SQ) setting on your camera. (See some of Worthy's recent posts.) If you are going to post images that are not edited, that is, images directly from your camera, SQ is the camera setting you should be using.

Compounding the problem of size is the low viewability of your recent images -- they are not bright enough to be viewable. Anson used editing software to crop your images, to reduce the file size, and to pump up the brightness; and, these are the things that you should be doing.

I urge you to read the thread "Photographing Fossils" under FOSSIL MEDIA in this forum for simple things you can do to make images that we all can appreciate and learn from.

--------Harry Pristis