Pool Man Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 (edited) Hello all! Found this strange tooth today. Its was on the surface ,so no way to tell from where in the shell/clay layer it came from.This layer spans the Plio-Pliestocene.The tooth is not whole, but no idea how much is missing. Thanks for looking! Edited October 24, 2009 by Pool Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 (edited) Poolman , looks like a baby Mammoth tooth or a pig tooth but I am thinking more Mammoth? Edited October 25, 2009 by worthy 55 It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Here are some pictures I found of a baby mammoth tooth. It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 It is a mammoth milk tooth. Nice find! http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pool Man Posted October 25, 2009 Author Share Posted October 25, 2009 That is excatly it!! Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Wow!! that is awesome. " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Great find Poolman ,that one is really hard to come by. It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Very nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 It looks very similar to a desmostylian tooth - at least all the different cones/columns. Then again, proboscideans and desmostylians are all very closely related. Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 If you don't enter this in Find of the Month, I will! It looks very similar to a desmostylian tooth - at least all the different cones/columns. Then again, proboscideans and desmostylians are all very closely related. Bobby The gross similarities are striking; Desmostylus was the first thing I Googled for comparison. A year ago I had never heard of it, and now I not only recognize similarities, I remembered the name; such is the power of the Forum! ('Course, I didn't know what a Mammoth milk-tooth looked like, but I do now). "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serack Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Wern't pigs introduced to the "new world" by the spanish? Were there prehistoric pigs in FL back in the day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 It is a beautiful specimen, I want one!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Very nice! If you would like to donate it it to a crazy disabled old man who loves fossil mammal teeth I can send you his address Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Wern't pigs introduced to the "new world" by the spanish? Were there prehistoric pigs in FL back in the day? Nope! different tipe of Peccaries were running along in prehistoric fields, all along North and south America... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Very nice! If you would like to donate it it to a crazy disabled old man who loves fossil mammal teeth I can send you his address Now there's an idea! FOTM winners should be curated by the Forum for posterity, and what better repository than Gatorman's "museum"? <did I just kill the contest?> "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pool Man Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 Thanks for all the replys every one! I did post this in FOTM. I think this fossil falls into the "from my cold dead hand" group. :crazysmile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 BRING ON THE ICE!!!! Very cool find! Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Here are some pictures I found of a baby mammoth tooth. There is also a nice photo of a baby mammoth tooth in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic (baby mammoth on the cover). I think someone brought up baby mammoths elsewhere on the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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