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Mystery Morocco jaw


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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?

 

 

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Tony, you beat me too it. I agree looks like a mastodon tooth.

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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.

 

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The seller could have just said it was from Morocco to avoid any issues with the prohibition of fossil exports from China.

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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.

 

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Here are other Sinomastodon sp. molars from Thailand, for comparison.

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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.

 

 

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