3 teeth and half a mandible

[Hugh Mongous]

Hello all.

 

I have a few fossils for you guys to take a look at.

Hope it’s ok if I stick all 4 of them in one topic.

 

My father pulled these out of the wall or side of a 50 m/164 ft deep lake on one of his diving expeditions, Vinkeveense Plassen in the Netherlands.

The lake where these were found was formed when a layer of peat/turf was removed to be used as fuel, below it was a vast layer of sand which was dredged up to a depth of about 50 meters m / 164 ft.

 

The fossils themselves were found at depths of 30 m / 98 ft to 40 m / 131 ft.

As my dad told it to me, they were basically sticking out of the peat wall that formed the edge of the lake and he just plucked them out.

 

Considering how deep these were buried, I suppose they could have been deposited somewhere during the last ice age.

 

I photographed these over a year ago and totally forgot to put ‘m up here back then.

Unfortunately I also forgot to put a ruler next to them for scale, but if needed for identification I can still do that.

 

Very curious to see what you guys make of these.

 

 

 

Edited August 24, 2021 by Hugh Mongous

[Fossildude19]

Look like horse and pig to me. Wait for other opinions, though. 

 

[Harry Pristis]

 

Equus horse lower cheek tooth.

Equus horse incisor.

Sus scrofa m2-m3.

Deer antler tine.

[Hugh Mongous]

Thanks guys. I could've sworn both curved pieces were tusks. Then again, I'm a total novice.

 

@Harry Pristis, you mean to say that piece of jaw with teeth in them is from a boar? Wasn't expecting that.

 

Can you say anything about their approximate age? Are they actually "fossils" or would you say they are too modern for that?

 

[Harry Pristis]

 

 

21 minutes ago, Hugh Mongous said:

Thanks guys. I could've sworn both curved pieces were tusks. Then again, I'm a total novice.

 

@Harry Pristis, you mean to say that piece of jaw with teeth in them is from a boar? Wasn't expecting that.

 

Can you say anything about their approximate age? Are they actually "fossils" or would you say they are too modern for that?

 

 

All of these specimens represent species still extant.  I understand that wild boar teeth and domestic pig teeth are indistinguishable.  I have no way to guess at the age of the specimens.