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Cretaceous Mammal Tooth? Big Brook


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Seems to me like a pig tooth or something? anyone have any idea what this is?

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Or possibly deer antler?? This was found in Big Brook, cretaseous NJ.

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Size/scale, please?

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Sorry, I should remember to include that.

It's 1.75 inches along the curve and 1" strait line.

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i dont think its a pig incisor, but if it is it's an upper incisor. i think it's from something else, just not sure what. ask harry pristis.

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Peccary tusk maybe?

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It's not Cretaceous. It has to be from the Cenozoic Era (recent to 65MM yrs). It reminds me of a Beaver tooth, but I haven't run accross mine yet to compare.

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I have an identical specimen found in a creek near San Jose. Long ago on the fossilweb.com site someone (Harry Pristis I believe) ID'd it as an unworn Equus incisor.

Bobby

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I have an identical specimen found in a creek near San Jose. Long ago on the fossilweb.com site someone (Harry Pristis I believe) ID'd it as an unworn Equus incisor.

Bobby

I don't know which animal produced this third incisor (an upper, I guess). Could be from an equid, but some artiodactyls have strange, asymmetrical incisors, also. Here's one, thouogh these are lowers.

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