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Help With an ID on this fossil mammal tooth


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4 hours ago, Georgemckenzie said:

Hoya everyone just bought a couple teeth one of them is mammal a help with an I’d would be great 

George,

This is going to be really hard on everyone, unless you can figure out how to get these photos into focus.

Also, what are the measurements?  Length, width, Height?

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You need to get a shot straight down at the biting surface of the tooth.  It might be an oreodont tooth from an Oligocene site in the Badlands region of the U.S.

 

 

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As others have said, it would be hard to ID this without a clear image of the top of the tooth and any info you have on where it was found would help narrow it down more. 

 

From what I can see, I would also guess an oreodont. You could compare it to this picture for an idea: 

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Another possibility might be a ruminant, like a Leptomeryx (small, deer-like critters). Here's their teeth to compare it to:

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Would love to see more pics, mammal teeth are my favs! 

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