Bone Daddy Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 On my last trip to Gardner (Peace River, Bone Valley member, Hawthorn group, Hardee County, Florida), I found these small Pleistocene mammal/vertebrate teeth. Even when these are pristine, I have difficulty with them because they all look so similar. Some of these are pretty worn, so ID might be impossible. I tried to snap good photos of the crowns to show the distinctive "squiggles". Can anyone ID these? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I compared them against photos of previous teeth I have found, but I couldn't come up with anything. Three more, with one oddball on the end : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Cropped and brightened: 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 If you are referring to "the one on the end" being the right side, it looks like armadillo to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 10 minutes ago, caldigger said: If you are referring to "the one on the end" being the right side, it looks like armadillo to me. I thought "sloth," but xenarthran, for sure. I see a lot of horse tooth fragments, as well. 1 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...
caldigger Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Harry Pristis said: I thought "sloth," but xenarthran, for sure. I see a lot of horse tooth fragments, as well. Sloth may be the sensible choice. The armadillo have more of a "figure eight" shape right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone Daddy Posted March 19, 2020 Author Share Posted March 19, 2020 Thanks for improving my photos. My camera is not the best. What image program or filters are you using? I use brighten and contrast filters in the GIMP photo editor, but I don't get great results like that. Would there be any way to determine which type of sloth/armadillo it is? I assume it's not a giant ground sloth tooth because it's too small and the texture doesn't look right from the ones I have seen in photos. Could this be a smaller extinct sloth, or a smallish/juvenile giant armadillo? What about glyptodont? I think their teeth look different from this as well. For the horse teeth fragments - some of them do look like partials/brokens, but a couple look complete with no obvious signs of breakage along the sides. Is this my eyes playing tricks on me and they are not intact, or do they represent juvenile/small individuals? All of the horse teeth I have found were a lot larger (even the fragments). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Well, giant armadillos do have anterior peglike as well as the figure-eight teeth. Sloths have peglike teeth, particularly the smaller species like Nothrotheriops. Howeverr, smaller individuals of larger sloths start with some peglike teeth. 2 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...
Fossildude19 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Bone Daddy said: Thanks for improving my photos. My camera is not the best. What image program or filters are you using? I use brighten and contrast filters in the GIMP photo editor, but I don't get great results like that. I use a free software called Photoscape. It is extremely easy to use, and intuitive. 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBones Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Some of the teeth in the first 2 photos remind me of horse teeth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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