megafever Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) Today as i was hunting in the water. soTHE BAY GODDESS struck and i saw it and thought it was a rock until i picked it up. I love fossil hunting!! Edited August 31, 2014 by megafever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Great find! Congrats, it seems that terrestrial material is pretty rare up your way Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpevahouse Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Though weather worn, possibly a deer tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megafever Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 i thought it was a horse tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 We need an occlusal (chewing surface) view, with crown dimensions. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megafever Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) Here is the chewing surface of the tooth. Edited August 31, 2014 by megafever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 It is indeed horse . Measurements will be needed to narrow down which it might be. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Very nice condition Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lissa318 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Great find!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott S. Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 I'm not terribly strong on most vertebrates but equine teeth work like fingerprints if you know how to read the wavy patterns on the enamel. From the looks of it this appears to be from the modern genus Equus which first showed up somewhere in the Pliocene. Most Equus teeth have a lot of patterning among the enamel on the maxillary teeth (upper jaw) but this looks to be from an elderly individual so a lot of it has been worn off. One excellent resource for pinning these down is "The Fossil Vertebrates of Florida" by Dr. Richard Hulbert. Most (and I think all) genera of horses are pretty well covered, and of course since these are mammals all the diagrams are provided of all the teeth for identification. Excellent find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMUFossil Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Awesome find!! Congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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