Gomphothere Germ Tooth?

[megaholic]

I found this tooth, and what I think is a distal toe bone from a proboscidean in the Peace River last week. I have some doubt about my ID because I have read that the distal bones from the proboscideans don't fossilize well at all, and are very rare. I think the tooth is too complex to be from a Mastodon, and a Gomp tooth is also a rare (too old) find for the area.

[Auspex]

Can you give us a sense of the size of the tooth?

[megaholic]

That's why I put the horse tooth in there with it. It is about 7/8 wide by 1.25 long.

[Auspex]

In that case, I wonder whether it might not be from a Dugong?

[megaholic]

Thank you Aussy,

I think that makes a better fit. It seemed way too small, but the root base made me think it was just like the bigger mastodon teeth I have found. Soft with a chamber under the crown. I have never seen a dugong tooth before, so I did not look into them. I have Manatee teeth from the Santa Fe, and they are MUCH smaller than this tooth.

[PrehistoricFlorida]

I agree. Dugong.