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Looking for an ID on this find today by my hunting partner!! Curious on the size...

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Thanks for all responses. Jack

The White Queen  ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast"

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Cal,

A while back, I got this excellent set of lower/upper Latrans carnassials from Harry. Measurements on the lower yields 21mm (.83 inch).

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The tooth to be IDed is a little over .6 inch, but may be just expected variability.

It is a small canid and that limits our choices, so Coyote is most probable. Thanks Jack

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I found this image at pixgood.com; their source is otherwise undisclosed:

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"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

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>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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I found this image at pixgood.com; their source is otherwise undisclosed:

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Thanks for the heads-up, Chas, but I couldn't find the image at pixgood.com. That is an image from my gallery on TFF that has been viewed nearly 1600 times.

I don't think the mystery tooth is a coyote carnassial. In fact, I don't think it's a carnassial at all. It reminds me of a p4 or a P3, but I don't recognize the species. I thought it might be from a river otter, but now I'm skeptical after a little research.

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I thought it looked like your style of presentation, Harry, but there is no attribution on the site at which I found it.

"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!

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I thought it looked like your style of presentation, Harry, but there is no attribution on the site at which I found it.

Same here lol, as soon as I saw that pic I thought it looked Harry had taken it :)

Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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