davebc15 Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 I am working for a non-profit and am attempting to ID this fossil from their collection. It was dredged up by a fishing trawler south of Long Island, NY in the 1950s. The vessel was still above the continental shelf. An "expert" from a Natural History Museum, probably in NYC, since that is where the vessel was from, stated that it was from the Mesozoic, but I have no other details about the identification. I'm not so sure that it is Mesozoic in origin, but I'd welcome any other identifications. Thanks! Here's a link to the fossil pics: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bx-miOxgtIbUSU8ybWpYaHJpT1k?usp=sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Welcome to TFF! Please post the pictures here as links can go dead and leave a thread meaningless. Also some of Us do not like to go off site to view pictures, Thank You, Tony 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...
davebc15 Posted August 7, 2017 Author Share Posted August 7, 2017 Thanks for the feedback, Tony! The pics are HD, so they exceeded the 3.95MB limit. I'll try to post one at a time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ynot Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Looks like a mastodon tooth. 1 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...
FossilDAWG Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 I agree, mastodon tooth. Definitely not from the Mesozoic! Pleistocene would be more likely. Fossils of ice-age mammals are occasionally dredged up by fishing vessels, because so much water was locked up in glaciers during glaciation episodes that the sea level fell dramatically, and so much of the continental shelf was dry land and therefore habitat for those animals. Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 For comparison: 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...
davebc15 Posted August 8, 2017 Author Share Posted August 8, 2017 I knew it wasn't Mesozoic when I first looked at it - I have an MS in Paleontology and knew it was mammalian. However, living in New England, we don't get a lot of Pleistocene fossils. Thanks for the reference picture! That will go well with my report for Mystic Seaport! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 Use the image if you like; just credit Harry Pristis. 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...
Doctor Mud Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 46 minutes ago, davebc15 said: I knew it wasn't Mesozoic when I first looked at it - I have an MS in Paleontology and knew it was mammalian. However, living in New England, we don't get a lot of Pleistocene fossils. Thanks for the reference picture! That will go well with my report for Mystic Seaport! Is Mystic Seaport your blog? Sorry I can't see signatures on my tablet so it might be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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