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Texas horse tooth - Upper vs lower?


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I found this tooth yesterday on a gravel bank where I find Pleistocene material.  It is missing the root...and I've tried to compare it to some teeth I've seen online.  I think it might be an Equus sp. because of the protocone not being isolated. And I thought upper...but it seems to be compressed and not as square as I thought uppers typically are?  Aren't lowers in this shape? And do lowers have a protocone?  It's solid as a rock and heavy. It has a beautiful color to it...to me anyway.  I have found completely mineralized horse material here so I do take it into consideration that there are Equus and I guess that would mean pre-Equus material locally.

It's 1.25 inches wide in 2nd pic.

And .75 inches top to bottom in 1st pic.

 

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Thank you! So I just read up on it. Deciduous teeth are baby teeth and are temporary. The last of them come in when a horse is about 8 months and these teeth are replaced at around 2.5 years old by adult teeth. Very interesting.  

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