Oxytropidoceras Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Mastodon Tooth Found By Fisherman The Inquistor, Oct.4, 2012 http://www.inquisitr...d-by-fisherman/ Texas fisherman hauls in big catch, KUVE http://www.kvue.com/...-172573701.html http://www.kvue.com/.../172513821.html http://www.kens5.com...-172561521.html Is Mastodon Tooth Found By Fisherman Real? Davy Villanueva Believes He Found Ancient Wooly Mammoth Fossil, international Business Times, October 4, 2012 http://www.ibtimes.c...-mammoth-fossil Best wishes, Paul H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitbat Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Hmmmm....a 50 million year old mastodon? I think not! The guy definitely found a mastodon tooth...though why the discovery is newsworthy escapes me. Mastodon teeth are not all THAT uncommon in Texas, especially in the area where it was apparently found. As for the part about it being a 'wooly mammoth' tooth...that just goes to show you how poorly the story was researched. It is a mastodont tooth and not a mammoth tooth. Besides...to my knowledge, Mammuthus primigenius is not found in Texas, which escaped the ravages of the continental ice sheets during the Pleistocene. Texas was home to Columbian and Imperial mammoths (M. columbi and M. imperator) during the 'ice ages'. -Joe Illigitimati non carborundum Fruitbat's PDF Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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