TNCollector Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 I found this today in a coastal Early Pleistocene deposit in South Carolina. I was thinking mammoth when I found it, but now I think it may be something else? It doesn’t have the characteristic rows of a mammoth tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ynot Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Milk tooth? 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...
Auspex Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Look here 1 "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNCollector Posted March 14, 2018 Author Share Posted March 14, 2018 @ynot @Auspex i can definitely see the resemblance, but is this tooth too large to be a milk tooth? All of the ones I have seen have been 1 to two inches across. This one is broken but is 2 and 13/16 inches across the crown, 7.19 cm. I also have not seen many milk teeth, so I really don’t know what I’m talking about. Are they rare? @Harry Pristis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Looks like mammoth to me as well, perhaps some pathology would cause that at the end? Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Maybe gomphothere? " 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...
Shellseeker Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 1 hour ago, jcbshark said: Looks like mammoth to me as well, perhaps some pathology would cause that at the end? Ditto. The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocentx Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 That is quite beautiful with the lacy bryozoans attached. "Journey through a universe ablaze with changes" Phil Ochs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Pretty sure it's a proboscidean but I'm thinking it's not a mammoth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 That's how I can see it: Comparative image is a Cuvieronius hyodon right m3 tooth. " 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...
Al Dente Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 I'm pretty confident it is from a mammoth. There is a lot of cementum surrounding the enamel. Not something you see in a mastodon or gomphothere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 4 hours ago, abyssunder said: Comparative image is a Cuvieronius hyodon right m3 tooth. Hmmmmm... Now that I see it might be just a tiny piece, mammoth ain't so unlikely anymore. But the arangement of the worns cusps is a better match for something like Cuvieronius. I'm sticking with proboscidean, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNCollector Posted March 16, 2018 Author Share Posted March 16, 2018 The cementum is what originally made me think Mammoth, but yes, the arrangement just doesn't match Mammoth at all. The cusps are not horizontally aligned like in a mammoth tooth, it almost appears that they are pointing towards the center of the tooth. Gomphothere fossils are known from this area, as well as mammoth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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