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Hello everyone Below are pics of two more items for help with ID. These were found on a dredge spoil island that produces modern to Miocene era fossils. I think both of these are from Ice Age era mammals. The larger grey one has spongy texture and is very heavy dense. It has a few lines running along the sides of it. I don't see Schreger lines or bark like material on it. I don't think it's a tusk, rostrum, or whale jaw bone but it looks like similar to those in appearance. The other smaller brown one is likely a broken piece of proboscid tooth but I'm not sure which part of the tooth or if it may be mammoth, mastodon, or gompotherium. I don't see enamel plates like in mammoth teeth present. Maybe a part of an incisor/tusk? It is much lighter/less dense than the larger one. I've found a few of these before with this shape and apparent Schreger lines. Thanks a bunch for looking
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Hello, this is my first time posting here. Normally I just lurk but I think I may have found something special here. So I was out on the Maasvlakte beach in the Netherlands today, looking for fossils. I found this tiny tooth (?). At first it didn't look like much but as it dried I started seeing a lot of signs that this might in fact be a proboscidean tooth. It is 2,8 cm/1.1 inch long. You can clearly see a layer of what I think is enamel where a piece has broken off. It shares a lot of similarities with gomphothere and mastodon teeth. I know a few Anancus teeth have been found in the North Sea, but they are usually found further south, in the province of Zeeland. I'm looking forward to seeing what you all think!
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Hi! I'm having trouble ID-ing this ~4.4cm long mammal tooth from China. It was labelled as Playbelodon, though the lack of cusps makes me doubt that assessment. I'm starting to wonder if it's a Proboscidean at all, and if it's an entirely different family of mammal alltogether. Does anyone have an idea on what this could potentially be?
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