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Found this tooth on a gravel bank here in Southeast Texas.  I think it's a horse incisor...Equus?

If it is that...how can you tell the age of an incisor? It has a nice color to it by the way plus it's the first incisor I'll have found. I have found lots of Pleistocene material in the same area. 

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What other fossils have you found in the gravel bank?  You can tell the age by examining all the fossils you've found and eliminating the ages they couldn't be.  Keep in mind that a tooth only a couple of hundred years old (or less) can be stained by tannins in river water and look older than it is.  That said, the tooth does look old enough to be Pleistocene age.

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I've found lots of Pleistocene material including horse, camel, mammoth, mastodon, turtle, giant armadillo, my jaguar canine, cow, bison and more. No dire wolf, American lion, giant sloth or short-faced bear yet. The Brazos guys and gals find the good stuff over there. Super jealous. I never heard of the word tannins....thank you for that.  Learned something new. 

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