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A very nice day -- blue sky and no breeze. I did not find any special fossils but did find a carnassial that seems modern.

I realized that this is feline or canid, but not which specific predator. About a year ago, HarryPristis made a trade with me that included upper carnassial & lower carnassial from Canis latrans (Coyote).

I was very pleased with the trade. post-2220-0-38999900-1393904546_thumb.jpg

Coyote carnassial is on the right and slightly larger that the one I found and looking closely there is an obvious difference in number of "bumps",

So, not Coyote but canid and slightly smaller -- Are there any options other than dog?

The White Queen  ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast"

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Can you get a photograph of the occlusal view of both teeth? And an accurate measurement of the lengths of both?

Thanks!

The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence".

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I collect skulls of all sorts too and i reverenced a coyote skull and dog skull. And.........you have a coyote again.

Lower jaw pic.

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I collect skulls of all sorts too and i reverenced a coyote skull and dog skull. And.........you have a coyote again.

Lower jaw pic.

Wow -- That seems compelling. I guess I would prefer having a fossil/modern version of the same tooth.

Rich, a couple of photos -- the fossil coyote seems 1 or 1.5 mm longer but also seems bigger. They are really pretty close in length. 20 mm versus 21 mm

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