darrow Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 I just picked this up in Galveston Bay dredge spoils. It's late Pleistocene. I've not found anything quite like it before. This particular spot has yielded a number of mammoth teeth but no mastodon although others have. This is the occlusal surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted March 26, 2017 Author Share Posted March 26, 2017 ...and views of the side and root and a another perspective of the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 I think you are looking at it upside down. It looks like a piece of gomphothere tooth and your occlusal surface is where it broke from the rest of the tooth. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted March 26, 2017 Author Share Posted March 26, 2017 Duh... the peak is obviously enamel. But fossils in these clays date to the last 30k years or so so gomphothere material shouldn't be here. Could it be from a broken mastodon tooth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 1 minute ago, darrow said: Duh... the peak is obviously enamel. But fossils in these clays date to the last 30k years or so so gomphothere material shouldn't be here. Could it be from a broken mastodon tooth? Could be. Wait for others to give their opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Well, the tooth is what it is. The unknown here is the age, so adjust that estimation accordingly. Cuvieronius was the last gomph in Florida. 1 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Looks like Gomphotere tooth. The lophs looks to be unworn. Baby, maybe? Can we get a right side view of what's shown in the third picture? " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 This tooth is definitely Gomph.. no question, and the 3rd photo is the occlusal surface, also no question. The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 Views of all sides and the top... After a little research this afternoon, I have to agree with the Gomphothere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 So Cuvieronius is middle Pleistocene 126,000 years ago in Florida and the Carolinas and approximately equal distance away as recent as 13,500 years ago from the Clovis site south on Arizona in Sonora Mexico bordering. The dredge spoil material is estimated 38,000 to 25,000 years old from what is theorized to be a swampy area near an abandoned channel of the Brazos River. Perhaps is was transported from older exposures a hundred or so miles inland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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