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Hello all. I found two different teeth this week that I think are horse. This sample was found on surface in location where I have found Meg teeth and dugong ribs, inland Venice, FL. I have attached photo showing occlusal view of cheekteeth. I cannot find a matching pattern in Dr. Hulbert's textbook or his 1988 Bulletin. I appreciate your feedback.

I was not quite sure what I should have put this discussion under, but Fossil ID seems related. My basic goal is to get photos of this fossil up on the Internet so that it might facilitate other identifications. I have not been posting very much because I have not been out hunting very much. My favorite hunting ground, Peace River Florida, has been far too deep and fast for many months to allow hunting. I was just making an intelligent decision not to drown. I have a single location that very infrequently gets low enough to allow access, and because of other fauna found, I recognize as a Miocene site. A couple of weeks back, I had such and opportunity and did not find very much, but this incisor stood out. It was a stretch to believe this to be a horse incisor. However, it is small enough to be the incisor of a pre Equus horse, and only small terrestrial mammal I had found at this location were some cormohipparion molar. Realizing that, EVEN on TFF, not many would have found or owned an incisor from a Miocene horse, I sent these photos to Richard Hulbert, director/curator of the Vertebrate Research Lab, University of Florida, Gainesville. His response below: I looked up "deciduous" to make sure I knew the meaning. If anyone has a deciduous horse tooth, please post. I would love to see another. In the meantime, I am pleased to find such a rare tooth...

When I can not go to the Peace River... I clean, sort, categorize fossils or I do some family genealogy research, or I watch a ballgame on TV. It is ALL good. Here I am, going thru the bottom of an old box that has mostly whale teeth, some ray dermals, a few horse teeth, and some odds & ends, all coming from a Florida phosphate mine. Ball game on TV, drink on the table... as good as it gets. A couple of the odds-ends, and a couple of pre_Equus horse teeth to identify. You must be a horse fossil expert to do this and I am not nearly good enough... The 1st is an Upper, Cormohipparion I think... The 2nd very small... maybe Nannippus. I have sent photo to Richard Hulbert. Just sharing the good feelings I have today. Scraps in the bottom of a box, waiting for me to get interested. Jack