Unknown Fossil Tooth And Partial Jaw

[Stan Simpson]

This partial fossil jawbone and tooth was found in a dredge operation near Houston Tx. I'm really not sure of the animal it came from so any help is really appreciated.

Thank all of you so much.

[DinoMike]

Horse tooth. Nice find, I rarely see fossil horse teeth still in the jaw.

[jpc]

upper jaw, so maxilla.  

[abyssunder]

Yup! Nice upper jaw fragment with one cheek tooth.

 

excerpt from Atlas of Animal Bones. For Prehistorians, Archaeologists and Quaternary Geologists - Elisabeth Schmid; Elsevier, New York, 1972.

[Ancient Bones]

Nice find Stan. Good pics too.

[digit]

Yup. Concur. Nice to find one still in a bit of the maxilla. That would make my day.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[Oxytropidoceras]

As in my comment to your other post, I would recommend showing it

to members of The Houston Gem & Mineral Society Paleontology Section.

There are people in it, who know more about vertebrate fossils than I

do and also would very likely appreciated looking at it.

 

Below are a number of publications that discuss the geology of

Galveston Bay and what they have been dredging through.

 

Start with:

 

Smyth, Wendy Clifton, 1991, Seismic facies analysis and depositional

history of an incised valley system, Galveston Bay area, Texas.

MS thesis, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/13511

https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/13110

https://scholarship.rice.edu/discover?scope=1911%2F8299&query=galveston+bay+thomas&submit=&rpp=10

 

Others are:

 

Brazos River to Galveston Island: Modern Coastal Systems of Texas

http://www.nabg-us.org/uploads/3/2/9/1/3291056/galveston_guide_nabg_2015.pdf.pdf

 

Graf, Claus Heinrich, 1966, The late Pleistocene Ingleside Barrier

Trend, Texas and Louisiana. Unpublished MS thesis, Rice University,

Houston, Texas.

https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/90324

 

Rehkemper, L. James , 1969, Sedimentology of Holocene Estuarine

Deposits, Galveston Bay, Texas. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Rice

University, Houston, Texas.

https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/14553

 

Rodriguez, Antonio Beyra, 1999, Sedimentary facies and evolution

of Late Pleistocene to recent coastal lithosomes on the east Texas

shelf Unpublished PhD dissertation, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/19432

 

Siringan, Fernando Pascual, 1993, Coastal lithosome evolution and

preservation during an overall rising sea level: East Texas gulf coast

and continental shelf. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Rice University,

Houston, Texas.

https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/16669

 

Thomas, Mark Ambrose, 1991, The impact of long-term and

short-term sea level changes on the evolution of the Wisconsinan-

Holocene Trinity/Sabine incised valley system, Texas continental

shelf. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/16488

 

Also, look at McFaddin Beach: This Site Is All Washed Up! at:

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/mcfaddin/

 

and

 

Stright, Melanie J., Eileen M. Lear, and James F. Bennett, 1999,

1999 Spatial Data Analysis of Artifacts Redeposited by Coastal

Erosion: A Case Study of McFaddin Beach, Texas. US Department

of the Interior, Minerals Management Service (2 volumes).

https://www.boem.gov/uploadedFiles/BOEM/BOEM_Newsroom/Library/Publications/1999/99-0068-Vol1.pdf

https://www.boem.gov/Gulf-of-Mexico-OCS-Region-Publications/#ARCHAEOLOGY

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

Edited December 12, 2016 by Oxytropidoceras
corrected grammar