old bones Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Here is another tooth from Sacha's Gainesville matrix. It's only the crown, but I'm hoping someone will recognize it's previous owner. I'm guessing a carnivore... Thanks for looking. Julianna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john h dalton Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 It looks like its from a coryphodon. I've glued quite a few coryphodon teeth back together and part of their large molers look just like that. Coryphodons weren't carnivors they just have some crazy looking teeth. I'm thinking I heard some where the word coryphodon means jagged tooth or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Pretty sure it wouldn't be Coryphodon if it came from Florida.But I agree that it is a mammal tooth fragment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 No Coryphodon in FL. No terrestrial Eocene. Can we assume the scale bar is in mm? So this thing is rather small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 6, 2015 Author Share Posted April 6, 2015 It looks like its from a coryphodon. I've glued quite a few coryphodon teeth back together and part of their large molers look just like that. Coryphodons weren't carnivors they just have some crazy looking teeth. I'm thinking I heard some where the word coryphodon means jagged tooth or something like that. Thanks for taking the time to look at this and reply. I was remiss in not defining the age of this find. Sorry about that. Pretty sure it wouldn't be Coryphodon if it came from Florida.But I agree that it is a mammal tooth fragment. No Coryphodon in FL. No terrestrial Eocene. Can we assume the scale bar is in mm? So this thing is rather small. Carl and jpc, It is small. The scale is mm. I was thinking along the lines of raccoon or other small mammal. I was just hoping that it was familiar to someone right off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john h dalton Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Ya your right. I failed to even notice the mm scale below it or where it came from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finderskeepers Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 (edited) I was wondering if it might be the first premolar of an opossum. They do have a lot of teeth. Edited April 6, 2015 by finderskeepers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 I was wondering if it might be the first premolar of an opossum. They do have a lot of teeth. They sure do, finderskeepers, and that is a good place for me to start looking for reference. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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