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Whose jaw is this?


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hi All,

 

Saw this for sale from China. No additional info. Based upon other items that the buy has for sale, I'd say Miocene or Pleistocene.

 

It's clearly mammal. Looks camel-y to me, but I'm no mammal expert.

 

Any thoughts?

 

thanks!

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Sorry I cant help with id, but its a nice looking piece.

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I saw this too and wondered. It will be interesting to see what it turns out to be!

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Just a guess, but it looks sort of like a bison jaw...

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This seems to be a lower Bison Jaw with the M1, M2 and wider M3 molar on the right present.

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As long as we're making guesses, I think it's a mandible from a Sumatran gazelle, Capricornis sumatraensis qinlingensis Hu & Qi, 1978.

 

 

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What could I say for sure is that the seller is from China and the specimen in question looks like this partial jaw from the same source. I don't think it's bison. :)

 

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