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My Eocene Pit Does It Again; Archeocete Whale Tooth.
sixgill pete posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
This past Wednesday I decided to take a ride over to my Eocene pit. I have not been over there much lately but as I have shown in the past it has produced some amazing fossils. Well, it did it once again!! Eocene Castle Hayne Formation Comfort Member 43.4 mm (1.71 inch) wide at the base of the tooth. 36.4 mm (1.43 inch) on one slant and 35.4 mm (1.39 inch) on the other slant. This is measuring just tooth. No root. After conversing with @Boesse he says it is probably best to identify it as a milk tooth of a small basilosaurid. An upper P3 or P4. Quite exciting!!- 34 replies
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Here are some pics of a tooth I found. I originally thought it might be a eocene sea cow tusk piece. I sent some pics to @Boesse and he believed it to be a ta first premolar of an archeocete whale. So wow! The same day I found the last Hexanchus I also found this fragment of an archeocete tooth. This pit has been amazing!! Also here is a very cool stingray barb. It is the part where it attaches to the body of the ray.
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