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Unknown Whale tooth!!


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Here is a whale tooth but I do not know what kind. It came the Santa Fe river too! 8) :)overstreet853.jpg 8) :)

It's my bone!!!

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Looks like it could be a porpoise to me, do you know roughly what age the tooth is?  That will at least pin it down to a time period.

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  • 2 weeks later...

I do not find these often, and as for the age it must have been when Florida was underwater ? ???

It's my bone!!!

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That's an Archeocete whale premolar. Nice Find!! I'll trade you for it -- how about a nice bear-dog canine?

-------Harry Pristis

I got to rummaging around my own collection and came up with these teeth. The Squalodont teeth appear to me to be miniature versions of the Archeocete whales, and the size of your tooth, Worthy, suggests this is a Squalodont tooth. Still an uncommon find in Florida, and particularly for the Santa Fe. ----Harry Pristis

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http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page

 

What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

---Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

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