Show us Your Epic Herbivore Teeth!

[Ruger9a]

15 hours ago, Harry Pristis said:

Here are two dugong teeth from South Florida:

 

 

Dang, those teeth look similar to this one......

[fossilized6s]

 

One of my favorites. Giant Beaver or Castoroides.

[Huntonia]

4 hours ago, fossilized6s said:

 

One of my favorites. Giant Beaver or Castoroides.

Giant beavers are one of my favorites too. I haven't been fortunate enough to add one to my collection as of yet. Did you find this yourself?

[Huntonia]

Here is my offering for the thread, the humble Equus tooth. It may be a common fossil but the quality is what makes this one. It is fully complete and has a wonderful glossy sheen.

[digit]

Gotta love a great Equus tooth. Where did this one come from?

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[Huntonia]

33 minutes ago, digit said:

Gotta love a great Equus tooth. Where did this one come from?

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

Sadly the only locality information I have is 'Florida'. Fewer and fewer retailers nowadays indicate formation, site, or even general locality.

[Ruger9a]

On 3/20/2020 at 8:06 PM, jpc said:

Here is a Eocene rhino jaw full of herbivore teeth I collected last summer.

 

  

Jpc, any chance you could post a photo of the teeth from the top?  I'm hoping to compare them to a few of my unspecified teeth.  That is a beautiful jaw by the way.

[paulyb135]

Much more of a theropod tooth collector, however here is my huge iguanodon tooth  

[Ruger9a]

That a beautiful tooth!  And the size...…..

[digit]

10 hours ago, Huntonia said:

Sadly the only locality information I have is 'Florida'. Fewer and fewer retailers nowadays indicate formation, site, or even general locality.

It looked remarkably like a Florida Equus tooth with its tar black coloration. I was curious if other localities produced similar coloration which is why I asked. I guess there is a reason why it looked so familiar.

 

    

Though Cotton Rats (Sigmodon spp.) will occasionally supplement their plant based diet with a few insects for the protein boost, they are primarily herbivores. With great rarity, these little molars turn up while I'm picking through micro-matrix gravel looking for other micro-fossils. Their molars are S-shaped when viewed from above which is the source of the genus name Sigmodon = "S-tooth". No scale in this photo buy you can infer from the size by the ridges of my fingerprints that these are very small and can be easily overlooked.

 

 

    

 

    

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[paulyb135]

4 hours ago, Ruger9a said:

That a beautiful tooth!  And the size...…..

Thanks! 

[jpc]

7 hours ago, Ruger9a said:

Jpc, any chance you could post a photo of the teeth from the top?  I'm hoping to compare them to a few of my unspecified teeth.  That is a beautiful jaw by the way.

Here is an oblique view that I think shows their pattern quite well.  

 

[Ruger9a]

1 hour ago, jpc said:

Here is an oblique view that I think shows their pattern quite well.  

 

Wow!  Those some really nice teeth.  I tried to match it to two of my undescribed but couldn't get that lucky.  Is the jaw from a Subhyracodon?  That's a complete (all the teeth) lower left side jaw isn't it?

[jpc]

1 hour ago, Ruger9a said:

Wow!  Those some really nice teeth.  I tried to match it to two of my undescribed but couldn't get that lucky.  Is the jaw from a Subhyracodon?  That's a complete (all the teeth) lower left side jaw isn't it?

Not Subhyracodon.  This thing is early Eocene (Bridgerian age).  I am looking at my Mammalian Paleofaunas of the World and it seems, there are no true rhinos in the Bridgerian so I am going to back off and call it simply a perissodactyl.  

 

https://www.minbooks.net/product/26/Mammalian-Paleofaunas-of-the-World-Donald-E-Savage-and-Donald-E-Russell

This book is great for listing what species are found in each age of the Tertiary... not so great at actually IDing stuff.  For that I need to go to the long list of scientific papers.  

 

It is all premolars and molars. Incisors and canine are not preserved here, if thing guy had any.  

[siteseer]

15 hours ago, jpc said:

Here is an oblique view that I think shows their pattern quite well.  

 

 

Hi JP,

 

That could be from one of the early titanotheres.  @fossillarry

 

I think it's too big to be from an early tapir or tapiroid but maybe.  Larry would know.  That's his bag.

 

Jess

 

 

 

 

[siteseer]

On 3/20/2020 at 4:30 PM, Harry Pristis said:

Here's a herbivore:

 

 

 

Hi Harry,

 

That color and preservation looks more like one from that Fresno County site around Monocline Ridge than Kern County.

 

Jess

 

@isurus90064 @fossillarry

 

 

 

 

[jpc]

8 hours ago, siteseer said:

 

Hi JP,

 

That could be from one of the early titanotheres.  @fossillarry

 

I think it's too big to be from an early tapir or tapiroid but maybe.  Larry would know.  That's his bag.

 

Jess

 

 

 

 

You inspired me to do a little resaerch.  Between a few papers I have and could find I am going with the Hyracodontid Fostercooperia grandis,  which is a rhino relative, but not a titanothere.  And it seems this is from the Uintan age beds, which are above the Bridgerian beds in the area I am collectting. I need to do more field research on this.  

 

And for those interested, here is the paper I used to ID it.

http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/1987

The American Museum has wonderfully put all of their pubs online available for free.  Yay AMNH! 

 

Now back to prepping croc scutes.

[digit]

19 minutes ago, jpc said:

Now back to prepping croc scutes.

A reasonable thing to be doing at the moment.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[isurus90064]

10 hours ago, siteseer said:

 

Hi Harry,

 

That color and preservation looks more like one from that Fresno County site around Monocline Ridge than Kern County.

 

Jess

 

@isurus90064 @fossillarry

 

 

 

 

 

Hey Jess, Harry,

 

Looks like typical Coalinga preservation. Also, I have never seen those colors from Roundmountain Silt or other Kern County deposits.

[Harry Pristis]

I appreciate the tip.  I got this tooth so long ago, probably from Larry M., that I can't remember any details.  Coalinga, Fresno County, it is!

[Shellseeker]

Over the years, I have been pretty fortunate with Llama_camel

 

 

[fossilized6s]

 

Some of my better mammal herb pieces, minus the sperm whales and cave bear teeth. (Giant Sloth, Giant Beaver, Titanothere, partail Mastodon, Oreodonts, Capybara, Wooly Rhino, Hyracodon, Tapir) i have many more, but that's for another day.

[Ruger9a]

Charley, I see (it looks like) two Woolly Rhinoceros teeth - nice.  Where is the Hydracodon tooth located?  Wayne

[PaleoNoel]

10 hours ago, Ruger9a said:

Charley, I see (it looks like) two Woolly Rhinoceros teeth - nice.  Where is the Hydracodon tooth located?  Wayne

I see it in the back of the case, left to the castoroides and below the larger woolly rhino.

[Ruger9a]

9 hours ago, PaleoNoel said:

I see it in the back of the case, left to the castoroides and below the larger woolly rhino.

OK, I see it now - to the right of the Oreodont jaw section?  Looks like it has at least two complete teeth.  Very nice.