NevadaHunter Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Hi all, I found these teeth at the same locality as my last two posts. I have more images to follow of some complete phalanges I have found but for now I’d like some help with these teeth. One I think may belong to a camel as both Paracamelus and Camelops were found in this locality and the other I am unsure of. The possible camel tooth isn’t far below the bone line so maybe it was unerupted? Any ideas would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
val horn Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 very interesting. Wish I could help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Hi NevadaHunter, I think the part you labeled chewing surface may actually be the root of the tooth. Beautiful pattern on that last pic! Cheers, J Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 I agree with mahnmut. That is the root. Camel is a good guess for the other one, and yeah, the animal died young; the tooth is barely erupted. As for the difference between camel lower molars and other artiodactyls from the Nevada Pliocene... I am not familiar with them at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NevadaHunter Posted March 13, 2021 Author Share Posted March 13, 2021 1 hour ago, jpc said: I agree with mahnmut. That is the root. Camel is a good guess for the other one, and yeah, the animal died young; the tooth is barely erupted. As for the difference between camel lower molars and other artiodactyls from the Nevada Pliocene... I am not familiar with them at all. 1 hour ago, Mahnmut said: Hi NevadaHunter, I think the part you labeled chewing surface may actually be the root of the tooth. Beautiful pattern on that last pic! Cheers, J Thank you guys for the input! I’m still learning about these sorts of fossils- never really tried searching any mammal localities prior to this. Unfortunately there’s not much information online to fauna specific to the Nevada and most academic studies I can find were poorly written back in the 50s era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Hello again. Perhaps another approach to ID may help: Instead of looking for specific Nevada fauna, look for a list of pliocene species of the US, narrow down your candidates and then try to find out if they occurred in Nevada. Wiki might be a start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Neogene_mammals_of_North_America Maybe you already have narrowed them down. In that case I cannot help much. Maybe tomorrow an expert on the forum comes along and tells you what your finds last meal was. Everything is possible Best Regards, J Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NevadaHunter Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 22 hours ago, Mahnmut said: Hello again. Perhaps another approach to ID may help: Instead of looking for specific Nevada fauna, look for a list of pliocene species of the US, narrow down your candidates and then try to find out if they occurred in Nevada. Wiki might be a start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Neogene_mammals_of_North_America Maybe you already have narrowed them down. In that case I cannot help much. Maybe tomorrow an expert on the forum comes along and tells you what your finds last meal was. Everything is possible Best Regards, J Thank you again for the help! I have been able to narrow down what species were present in Nevada, but much beyond that it gets tough. I did find a researcher up in Idaho that specializes in western Miocene fauna so I’m hoping to build up a small collection before I try to pick his brains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Lucky you! the best vertebrate fossil could find around here was a partial deer tooth, probably rather subfossil. Cheers, J Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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