Bison tooth

[Wasagaming]

This tooth was found at wasagaming beach in manitoba canada.  National park staff have identified it as most likely from a bison but i am wonder what people think the age might be based on its looks

Edited August 7, 2017 by Wasagaming

[Wasagaming]

[Kane]

Interesting. You may wish to take a direct, close up photo of the specimen in full light, with some photos showing the chewing end.

[Wasagaming]

I have added a picture of the chewing end in the comments. Unfortainatly the park has kept the tooth and we no longer have it.  The park staff member we spoke with was guessing the age at possibly the 2000 year mark.  I would just like to confirm that estimate

Edited August 7, 2017 by Wasagaming

[sixgill pete]

It is very hard to confidently ID fossils in pictures that do not make the fossil the center of "attention". Also, to make an ID based on photos good well focused close up pictures are needed from all angles. The age often cannot be determined by looking at the item, but by knowing the geology( age and formation) of where it was found. 2000 years would not be the age I would imagine, but could be.

 

BTW, do park rangers always "keep" the finds? Sounds to me like he or she just added another tooth to their collection possibly.

[Kane]

1 minute ago, sixgill pete said:

 

 

BTW, do park rangers always "keep" the finds? Sounds to me like he or she just added another tooth to their collection possibly.

If it is a fossil, in Manitoba technically people aren't allowed to keep them.  

[sixgill pete]

Just now, Kane said:

If it is a fossil, in Manitoba technically people aren't allowed to keep them.  

 

That, I did not know. So what happens to them?

[Kane]

I think they are property of the province, but not sure what happens to them. I picture some enormous warehouse filled with dusty boxes of fossils!

 

Fossils are classed under "heritage objects" for which one would have to obtain a heritage permit to allow collecting. 

http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/h039-1e.php

[Wasagaming]

Because it was found in a national park you are not allowed to remove it.  This goes for rocks plants or fosils.  Nothing is allowed to be removed

[FossilDAWG]

I wonder if or how they apply that law to invertebrate fossils.  Certainly Manitoba fossils are exported all over the country in the form of Tyndall Stone, a decorative building stone that is loaded with Ordovician fossils including large cephalopods, corals, gastropods, and recepticulitids.  The quarry where this stone is cut allows people in to their dump site (for a fee) to collect from the trimmings or broken pieces.

 

Don

[Wasagaming]

I have seen that type of fosil many times unfortainatly i only know of the law preventing the removal from national parks.