Kigiyuk Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 Found this on the beach today. Located in Nome, Alaska, right on the Bering Sea. No bovines to be found here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chase_E Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 I believe this is a bison tooth mainly because it has a stylid. This post might help you as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDiggin Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 I'm no expert but I've found several horse teeth in creeks and on the beach that look just like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 Just curious-- what do musk ox teeth look like? Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 Hello from Maryland, in the far north reaches of the world, bovids rarely make a home. I'm guessing that previously someone brought a cow up there, possibly trying to raise them for meat. Maybe during the gold rush this could have happened. One possible but extremely unlikely explaination is that it was thrown off a ship in the Bering, maybe as throw away bits from a head. A probably explaination, is someone was butchering a cow and threw away the skull, probably somewhere not far from the beach, and the tooth dislodged and was swept to the beach. I hope this helps, and that you find out the rest of this specimens history! “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 Musk ox teeth picture, found online, they seem to lack a stylid. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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