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Horse Tooth - Recent?


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This tooth was found while fossil collecting along the Calvert Cliffs as float. It looks like a horse tooth to me but I'm not great on mammal material. Sometimes recent material is found on the beach although the main exposure is Miocene. Is this a horse tooth and can it be narrowed down to species? Thanks for any help!

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The chewing surface is 1.125"x.650"

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Horse lower molar, but the color is not so much fossil-white as it is bone white - a tinge of yellowish which suggests organic material. I'd guess - and it's purely a guess - recent.

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Horse lower molar, but the color is not so much fossil-white as it is bone white - a tinge of yellowish which suggests organic material. I'd guess - and it's purely a guess - recent.

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I was pretty sure it was recent but as I don't see much mammal material here thought I would ask before labeling it as such. Thanks!

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