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What Mouth Did This Tooth Come From?


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Last year while hunting a late Cretaceous Coon Creek formation, i happened up on this tooth. (Or what is left of it. It wasn't in the layer in situ, but was laying in the creek where it cuts through a good CC outcrop. You can tell, whatever did this to the animal it came from was a beast...one hungry boy! Now, to me, this tooth looks like some sort of herbivore. I did take this item and have it looked @ by a professional, who told me he believed it to have been a horse tooth, & though it must have come from a deposit above the CC formation......@ first, that sounded pretty good to me.......so i went home and found some old horse skulls and pulled some teeth! :D

The first photo has the old specimen in the center, it is encircled by "modern" horse teeth. This is for a comparison view. Specimen in question seems to be longer than any of the modern type, even though it is missing alot. Also.....the more i thought about it, there is nothing anywhere above the CC formation in this creek but the Ripley formation....which is alao marine and of a late Cretaceous age. And with this tooth being this color, it is consistent with the color of teeth (in general) collected from the CC formation, which is concentrated with glouconite. I haven't eliminated a horse as the possible source, but would like opinions as to other possible origins.....what mouth did this thing come from?

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More shots of the tooth, the last photo is what i take to be the root end....to me, i cant see modern horse tooth with a root work like that either. I was assured by who inspected the tooth that it positively was prehistoric.

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I'm not really a tooth guy, but it looks to be a mammal.. so, probably not Cretaceous.

If your hunting area is a stream/river/creek, keep in mind that floods could have washed it out from farther away, re-deposited and reburied it further downstream.

Have you looked at bison, or camel?

Any Cenozoic deposits upstream?

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Yes sir Fossildude, i dismissed it as something mammalian also, & it does have a mammal look to me too. I never have yet been able to explore much further up the creek to know if there were any Cenozoic deposits, but i am guessing no. The CC outcrop in this creek is small.....maybe 150ft of the creek, then it dips back down.....that tooth came from about the middle of the outcrop area.....it sure could b from a more recent deposit sir, but because of me finding it where i did, i still wonder. If i had found it in anyother place in that creek, i probably wouldn't have wondered so much about it...

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I haven't thought of Camel...

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Link to images... Horse molars

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EDIT: And, please, call me Tim. :)

Less of a mouthful, easier to type. ;)

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100% horse. Nice find Joshua.

Also, i almost postive that your white tooth in the first pic is from a buffalo and/or cow.

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Thanks Fossilized6s!...& yea, that white one i didnt actually get from where them others come from. :)

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