Aurelius Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Hi everyone. Can anyone please identify this? I assume it must be a jaw of some kind, and is said to be from Morocco, but I've not seen anything quite like it before. I wondered if it might be something like Basilosaurus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Looks like a mastodon tooth to Me, but were they ever in Morocco? 3 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...
sixgill pete Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Tony, you beat me too it. I agree looks like a mastodon tooth. 3 Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelius Posted November 29, 2017 Author Share Posted November 29, 2017 Aha, that might explain it! I think the seller might be confused as to where the fossil is from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Never seen anything like it in Morocco, that's for sure. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Likely a Chinese gomphothere, Cf. Sinomastodon. 8 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...
RJB Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 From China. Use to have several of them myself. RB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Unfortunately we don't know the location of the find and the geological age. It could be from China or from somewhere else. If it is from China could be of Middle Miocene to Pleistocene. I'd like to compare it to Platybelodon. 1 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattbsharks Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 5 hours ago, RJB said: From China. Use to have several of them myself. RB Thanks for those, I love them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Compare with Sinomastodon: 2 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...
KimTexan Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 The seller could have just said it was from Morocco to avoid any issues with the prohibition of fossil exports from China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 I don't see the resemblance with Sinomastodon jiangnanensis (Sinomastodon yangziensis) or the below Sinomastodontin, but It's just my perception, I could be wrong. Here are other Sinomastodon sp. molars from Thailand, for comparison. Sinomastodon sp. (c) PRY59, intermediate molar, (d) PRY 101, intermediate molar, (e) PRY62, left mandible with m3 It would be good to know where the specimen in question came from. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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