dmax 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xiphactinus 288 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 It's a mastodon tooth -- very worn down, so it was from an old individual. Nice find! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PrehistoricFlorida 82 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 Looks like a Gomphotherium to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Nicholas Report post Posted February 6, 2008 My vote is for mastodon. I could be wrong though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MOROPUS 20 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 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: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
worthy 55 5 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 I would have to say a Gomph too. Nice find! :Thumbs-up: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Harry Pristis 3,412 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MOROPUS 20 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 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! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Harry Pristis 3,412 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MOROPUS 20 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 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! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dmax 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 much thanks dmax Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
darren 0 Report post Posted February 7, 2008 Gomphotherium And I'd be hitting those spoil islands again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites