Mastodon Tooth Found By Fisherman (Texas)

[Oxytropidoceras]

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.

Edited October 4, 2012 by Oxytropidoceras

[Fruitbat]

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