JBMugu Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Here is an interesting tooth I found sitting on the top of the ground while looking for a shark tooth I dropped. I'm thinking some sort of broken mamnal tooth. What do you think? Size is 10mm across Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JBMugu Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 Another view Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Close up pics are really needed to give an accurate ID. I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBMugu Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 Sorry it's hard to get close up when the fossil is small Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Part of a Desmostylus tooth, perhaps? Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBMugu Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 7 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said: Part of a Desmostylus tooth, perhaps? I think the outside shape is a little too square for a desmostylus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 @caldigger @siteseer @ynot Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Looks like desmo to Me also. If not that - I have no idea. 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...
JBMugu Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 Maybe @Boesse would have an idea, it doesn't look like the other desmo's I have found. I'll try to get some better pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBMugu Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 OK I broke out the microscope for some close upshots 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Agree with fragment of desmostylus tooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Desmostylus grow in a clustered bunch and can easily crowd in there causing a distorted shape (squarish). I would say a segment of a Desi. tooth. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 I think you guys are correct - some of the juvenile teeth found at that Pecten Reef locality near Coalinga (the blackish teeth in chunks of pecten coquina) are really dinky, and some of the individual cusps are totally surrounded, though this had at least one free side. I think it's from a juvenile. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBMugu Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 Thanks for the ID! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 I can only add that even a piece of a Desmostylus tooth is rare in the STH Bonebed. From 1993 to 2007 I found part of a tooth and maybe two individual cusps. Maybe Allodesmus took up too much of the beach in the Bakersfield area? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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