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Savannah River Dredge Spoil-Water Worn Partial Mammal Tooth?


James Savage

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Hello everyone

Wanted to share one of the many things that have me stumped.  The hunting spot is from dredged material from the river that has been deposited on a man-made island that has a mix of Miocene and Pleistocene era fossils.

This looks like it is made of enamel and doesn't have any porous fossil bone structure that I can see.  It looked at first like a very worn bit of a small plate of mammoth tooth enamel.  It has what appears to be a peak and valley on part of the crown on the occlusal/top side (possibly a plate tubercle?).  It is completely flat on one side and has a slight bulge outwards on the other.  I don't see any area where roots extended from the crown of the tooth.  The occlusal/top side doesn't seem to have the mammoth tooth plate enamel ridges.   I've found a few similar appearing fossils in the area over the years from this spot.  I also found a broken mastodon or gomphotherium tooth cap/hump and a few pieces of ivory bark nearby on this trip.

Let me know your thoughts on ID or if it may be too worn for identification.

Thanks for looking

  

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This looks like a chunk of mastodon tooth to me. the part of the enamel of one of the cones.

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