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Winner of the December 2017 Vertebrate Find Of The Month!


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CONGRATULATIONS ! ! ! ! :yay-smiley-1:

A really well deserved win! 

Incredible fossil. 

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Hi,

 

Congrats Cowboy ! A very nice fossil and a great prep !

 

Coco

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Beautiful fossil!

Congratulations.  :) 

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Congratulations! Amazing find, and a great job putting humpty dumpty back together again!

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

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Congrats on the win! :dinothumb:

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Tha mandible is a real stunner, congrats :yay-smiley-1:

Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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Nice jaw, and good job on the reassembly. I'm pretty sure that this is a Mesohippus, rather than a Poebrotherium. The horse is actually a bit more rare in the Nebraska badlands than the camel.

 

Bob

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Congrats on this amazing find. What a splendid fossil treasure.

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Thanks everyone!

11 hours ago, rfarrar said:

Nice jaw, and good job on the reassembly. I'm pretty sure that this is a Mesohippus, rather than a Poebrotherium. The horse is actually a bit more rare in the Nebraska badlands than the camel.

 

Bob

I am curious as to why you think Mesohippus over Poebrotherium.  I do not know much about identifying them based on teeth, so I was just going off what I was told it probably was.

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Congrats! That is a sweet piece to find and reassemble.

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21 hours ago, Cowboy Paleontologist said:

Thanks everyone!

I am curious as to why you think Mesohippus over Poebrotherium.  I do not know much about identifying them based on teeth, so I was just going off what I was told it probably was.

Mesohippus lower teeth have a simple doubled-u structure. Poebrotherium has a narrower tooth with sharp points on the lingual side, and a more complex enamel-dentine pattern. Until heavily worn there is an open inclined B-shape in the middle of the crown formed by the enamel. There is no enamel in the middle of the lower teeth on a Mesohippus. Hard to explain, but a quick search on the web will show you some examples.

Bob

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After some more looking, I believe rfarrar (Bob) is correct.  It does appear to be Mesohippus rather than Poebrotherium.

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