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Partial lower jaw from a mammal


violinistt

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Hello there,

 

I recently acquired this fossil, which seemed to me a partial lower jaw from a mammal.

Can anyone help identify this particular fossil?

Also, this mammal appeared to have an impacted third molar just like humans!!

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3 hours ago, violinistt said:

Hello there,

 

I recently acquired this fossil, which seemed to me a partial lower jaw from a mammal.

Can anyone help identify this particular fossil?

Also, this mammal appeared to have an impacted third molar just like humans!!

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Nice specimen! Do you have any locality information to help us? Thanks for the metric scale! Most importantly, welcome!

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6 minutes ago, LabRatKing said:

Nice specimen! Do you have any locality information to help us? Thanks for the metric scale! Most importantly, welcome!

Thank you for the reply!

The seller said this fossil was from Austria.

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Ursus spelaeus? just a wild guess - I have no comparative material - just literature: Cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) from Chamber B of the Goyet Cave in Belgium.

http://kmkjournals.com/upload/PDF/RJT/9/ther9_2_093_104_Baryshnikov.pdf

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8 hours ago, LabRatKing said:

I’m thinking U. spelaeus too. I have a specimen I can compare to tomorrow in the Uni collection.


thanks for the help!

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These omnivore molars fit very well with Ursus spelaeus, they resemble other omnivores' like ours and pigs' rather than the carnassials of more specialised Carnivores.

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J

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I took a look at our chunk and this is ursine for sure (it looks quite similar- ours is a bit bigger, however our specimen is missing the last molars, so I have no comparison for the teeth.

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