Need Id

[Roz]

I found this on the recent hunt to the North Sulphur River. I am

showing 2 views. The river has a real mix of ages and formations

so cannot name which it is from. Actually, I am not even positive

it is a fossil.

Now I am going to sneak in a pic of my first piece of mammoth

material found at the same hunt. It was identified as a section that goes between the

ridges of a mammoth tooth. One of these I am going to find a complete tooth!

Thanks!

[Harry Pristis]

I found this on the recent hunt to the North Sulphur River. I am

showing 2 views. The river has a real mix of ages and formations

so cannot name which it is from. Actually, I am not even positive

it is a fossil.

Now I am going to sneak in a pic of my first piece of mammoth

material found at the same hunt. It was identified as a section that goes between the

ridges of a mammoth tooth. One of these I am going to find a complete tooth!

Thanks!

Hello, Roz . . .

Your first object resembles a fragment of an unerupted Equus horse cheek-tooth. The protocone and the "lophs" are uncemented in the first few millimeters of an unworn tooth, and they easily shear away.

The stuff between the enamel plates of a mammoth tooth is cementum. Cementum is relatively soft, and does not preserve well by itself.

-------Harry Pristis

[Roz]

Thanks so much for the ID, Harry... Appreciate it.

Never would have guessed horse.