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Tooth Identification


Orinky

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Beach combing on the Hudson River around Peekskill this weekend I came across this. It appears to be a tooth, I suspected it was maybe a horse. I'd love to know if anyone has thoughts on what it came from and whether you think it truly is a fossil? 

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Terrific! I imagine that we can tell it isn't a fossil because it would be solid, not hollow where the roots once were?

 

I'm thrilled either way, such a strange thing to find on the beach!

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1 hour ago, Orinky said:

Terrific! I imagine that we can tell it isn't a fossil because it would be solid, not hollow where the roots once were?

 

I'm thrilled either way, such a strange thing to find on the beach!

 

No, Orinky, I posited "not a fossil" because cows are historic, not prehistoric in North America.  The tooth is a nice specimen for your comparison collection.

 

http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page

 

What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

---Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

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