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Hi all, 

I received a jar of fossils from my grandfather a couple years ago before he passed away, and was wondering what type of tooth it was. Most of the stuff in the jar is from Florida but I’m not positive everything is. It is 2 1/4 inches long. my guess is it’s either a mammoth or horse tooth.

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It's a nice horse upper cheek tooth. :)

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2 hours ago, Rustdee said:

This is a nice horse tooth! :dinothumb:

 

46 minutes ago, abyssunder said:

It's a nice horse upper cheek tooth. :)

Thank you for the replies!!! Do you think it’s a bv tooth?

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Hi,

 

BV tooth ? :zzzzscratchchin:

 

Coco

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Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici
Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici
Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici
Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici
Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici

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4 hours ago, Coco said:

Hi,

 

BV tooth ? :zzzzscratchchin:

 

Coco

BV == Bone Valley, Florida and to answer the question.  The coloration --- blue enamel on brown cementum is a mark of land found fossils from Bone Valley. These are my favorite hunting grounds.

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17 hours ago, Familyroadtrip said:

I received a jar of fossils from my grandfather a couple years ago before he passed away, and was wondering what type of tooth it was. Most of the stuff in the jar is from Florida but I’m not positive everything is. It is 2 1/4 inches long. my guess is it’s either a mammoth or horse tooth.

Here is a good thread to compare your tooth to Equus .sp

 

The White Queen  ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast"

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40 minutes ago, Shellseeker said:

BV == Bone Valley, Florida and to answer the question.  The coloration --- blue enamel on brown cementum is a mark of land found fossils from Bone Valley. These are my favorite hunting grounds.

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I’d love to fossil hunt in bv, but I don’t where I can. Does the heard bridge entrance have any bv in it, it was where I went fossil hunting on a tour and some of the colors were kinda like bv.

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41 minutes ago, Shellseeker said:

Here is a good thread to compare your tooth to Equus .sp

 

It’s definitely horse, but to me it looked one of the pre equus horse teeth

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Thanks @Shellseeker :)

 

Coco

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OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici

Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici
Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici
Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici
Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici
Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici
Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici

Un Greg...

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1 hour ago, Familyroadtrip said:

I’d love to fossil hunt in bv, but I don’t where I can. Does the heard bridge entrance have any bv in it, it was where I went fossil hunting on a tour and some of the colors were kinda like bv.

 

1 hour ago, Familyroadtrip said:

It’s definitely horse, but to me it looked one of the pre equus horse teeth

 

Remember, these horses have ancestors and descendants. SIZE is what counts when determining Equus .sp. What is the length of your chewing surface?

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If you look lower right (Hardee County), the blue line is the Peace River, the orange line is Route 17.  They cross at Zolfo Springs. The Black is the Phosphate mines approximately == Bone Valley. You are confusing fossils with color.  Nannippus found in Phosphate Mine (LAND!!!!), followed by a Nannippus from the Peace River. Note the sizes. All these pre Equus horses are 1/2 to 3/4 inch across the chewing surface. The darker teeth are river and creek finds stained by the tanic acid in leaves.

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Here is the size of the chewing surface 

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23 hours ago, Familyroadtrip said:

Here is the size of the chewing surface 

You might research Dinohippus and Pliohippus. They are the closest relatives to Equus

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fossil-horses/gallery/dinohippus/#

I studied a large number of BV Equus .sp teeth>

Richard Hulbert is the expert on small horse teeth,  especially those that come from Florida.  You should read his comments in the thread below.

 

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