hakan bakiryol Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 İ found this in a sand pit . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Hunter Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Could you please provide location and measurements? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Big tooth. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth_ Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Welcome to TFF, you may need to elaborate a bit on your find location of "sand pit". A local preschool, beach or desert etc? You definitely have something interesting.... I await the experts to see what they say. It looks very tusk-ish though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 4 minutes ago, Gareth_ said: tusk-ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hakan bakiryol Posted October 25, 2021 Author Share Posted October 25, 2021 2 hours ago, Lone Hunter said: Could you please provide location and measurements? the thickest circumference 35.5 cm length 39 cm but the tooth tip is broken . İts from çorlu ,Turkey . from a sand pit. 30 m depth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hakan bakiryol Posted October 25, 2021 Author Share Posted October 25, 2021 9 minutes ago, hakan bakiryol said: the thickest circumference 35.5 cm length 39 cm but the tooth tip is broken . İts from çorlu ,Turkey . from a sand pit. 30 m depth and ther is channel on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 @Tidgy's Dad @Harry Pristis this looks like a tusk to me. however I have no idea as to an I.D. 1 1 Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 It's well outside my limited knowledge of such things. I would also say it looks like a tusk, but I have no idea at all what creature it is from. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 54 minutes ago, hakan bakiryol said: ther is channel on it Teeth have a nerve canal in them. One never wants to hear a dentist say "this may require a root canal procedure". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
val horn Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 tusks are teeth, just very large and with limited or no enamel. Nice find. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 I agree with it being a partial tusk. More local information. 1 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 The only reasonable guess I can think of is an elephantoid -- an elephant, in this case -- tusk. 1 1 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hakan bakiryol Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 İt looks like a baby mastodon tusk https://www.indystar.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2019/04/18/mastodon-bones-found-farm-seymour-indiana/3510238002/. but did mostodon ever exist in Turkey Thrace region? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 No doubt about it: the overall shape of the specimen, the way the outside flakes and the concentric build-up of the piece, as visible in the bottom left of the first photograph, are all reminiscent of the mammoth tusks I've seen come out of the North Sea. As such, this is certainly elephantoid, but wouldn't be able to help you with an ID. However, I'd like to point out that without further information as to the dating of other material found in the pit, there's no way to say whether this is a fossil or potentially an archaeological item. Sand pits like the one you're describing are often lag deposits and thereby prone to palimpsest. It's very well possible that elephantoids once roamed the region you found this in. But also keep in mind that certain ancient cultures, such as the Carthaginians and Persians, used elephants in battle... I'd therefore do some research on other material found in that pit, as you may have a potentially significant find on your hands. In any case, it's quite the spectacular find, seeing as it's a near-complete specimen! 2 1 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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