Mammoth Tooth?

[dmax 0]

Can anyone help confirm this for me. I was told that what I found was a mammoth tooth but my follow up research makes me believe it could be something else... just not sure what.

I found it off the GA coast in dredge spoils

Thanks

Dmax

[Xiphactinus 297]

It's a mastodon tooth -- very worn down, so it was from an old individual. Nice find!

[PrehistoricFlorida 92]

Looks like a Gomphotherium to me.

[Guest Nicholas]

My vote is for mastodon. I could be wrong though.

[MOROPUS 22]

I agree with auriculatus.It looks very much to a very worn Gomphotherium Angustidens to me.It was a four tusk mastodon, that lived in the Miocene, and spread around North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.Good catch! That`s a rare one! :Thumbs-up:

[worthy 55 6]

I would have to say a Gomph too. Nice find! :Thumbs-up:

[Harry Pristis 3,712]

I agree with auriculatus.It looks very much to a very worn Gomphotherium Angustidens to me.It was a four tusk mastodon, that lived in the Miocene, and spread around North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.Good catch! That`s a rare one! :Thumbs-up:

I've never heard of Gomphotherium angustidens, Moropus. It may be know by a synonym in the USA, but it must be rare. The common Gomphothere here, from California to Florida (and Georgia and South Carolina) is Cuvieronius sp. This senile example is so worn, that any species identification is nigh on to impossible.

------Harry Pristis

[MOROPUS 22]

I've never heard of Gomphotherium angustidens, Moropus. It may be know by a synonym in the USA, but it must be rare. The common Gomphothere here, from California to Florida (and Georgia and South Carolina) is Cuvieronius sp. This senile example is so worn, that any species identification is nigh on to impossible.

------Harry Pristis

Well, it was only an approaching! Perhaps, as you say, could be the synonymous of Cuvieronius for the States; my only references are European books, and the commonly seen specimen here is Gomphoterium Angustidens!

[Harry Pristis 3,712]

Well, it was only an approaching! Perhaps, as you say, could be the synonymous of Cuvieronius for the States; my only references are European books, and the commonly seen specimen here is Gomphoterium Angustidens!

I don't think that Gomphotherium angustidens occurs in the Americas. G. angustidens was a Eurasian-African species. About ten genera of mastodonts are recognized from the Miocene of Eurasia and Africa, according to one book.

[MOROPUS 22]

I don't think that Gomphotherium angustidens occurs in the Americas. G. angustidens was a Eurasian-African species. About ten genera of mastodonts are recognized from the Miocene of Eurasia and Africa, according to one book.

Perhaps you are right! Sorry about it, but it looked so much to that one! In one of my books is said that "this specimen is widespread across northern Hemisphere"; but in other books, only says in Eurasia and Africa.Meanwhile, I was looking in my "definitive guide book" (is the one I mostly look for rare ones), for it, and I found that in Spain are record 3 types of Gomphotheriidae: Gomphoterium Angustidens (First Miocene-Middle Pliocene), Anancus Arvernensis (Late Pliocene-Pleistocene), and Tetralophodon Longirostris (Middle miocene-Upper Miocene).

Nevertheless, thanks for the correction!

[dmax 0]

much thanks

dmax

[darren 0]

Gomphotherium And I'd be hitting those spoil islands again.