Callahan Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Found this at friends giant 60 section ranch outside monahans Texas in bottom of sand hills in harder sand layer where I find artifacts etc. his land is directly across from sand hills state park monahans tx. any idea on animal. deer looking to me ? It could be highly mineralized but seems to be fossilized and hard as rock. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advantage Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 I`m not sure that is a tooth, other more erudite forum users, I`m sure will give you a more positive answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 I'm not all that erudite myself, but I also have my doubts that this is a tooth, although I'm not quite sure altogether what it might be. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 if it is a tooth, it looks like it took a few bites on your hand. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 If it's a tooth, it fits the pattern of one of the... I'm not entirely sure of the terminology, but the circular pattern on an upper horse tooth. Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Daniel has the right ballpark, but this is a fossette from a Bovid upper, not horse. 4 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...
Meganeura Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 47 minutes ago, Harry Pristis said: Daniel has the right ballpark, but this is a fossette from a Bovid upper, not horse. Fossette! That’s the word. Thank you, Harry! Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callahan Posted February 1, 2023 Author Share Posted February 1, 2023 My hands always cut up, bitten, destroyed from many hobbies. Gloves are for wussies and you would think I would know knife safety by now. it’s a tooth. Almost human looking. It’s pretty much fossilized ot mineralizd. Like a front tooth of something. thanks with help and making me laugh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callahan Posted February 1, 2023 Author Share Posted February 1, 2023 Learned something new fossette or whatever you called it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 10 minutes ago, Callahan said: Learned something new fossette or whatever you called it. Yes, fossette, and it’s definitely one! If you’re certain it’s fossilized, it’s possibly Bison. Otherwise, probably cow. Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callahan Posted February 1, 2023 Author Share Posted February 1, 2023 Prob bison. Found near Sandhills state park monahans tx friends ranch across the highway. crazy that climate had to be much more wet back in the Indian days. The “engines”artifacts I find are mill stones manos and points mostly in the bowls of the dunes. So they must of farmed the sand some how and thrived. Possibly Water table as very shallow and easy to dig hand dug wells and springs back then. roght now for a cow to survive. I’m exaggerating a section of land per cow. Shinnery oak and sand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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