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Bison or Cow tooth?

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I am with a construction crew building a bridge in North Dakota.  I found this tooth while excavating one of the proposed piers in a sand layer approximately 20 ft down from the original ground.  The sand layer also has 3 inch clams around it as well.  The river channel was man made in this area where the tooth was found back in the 70’s and the original river channel is about 1500 ft away.  However this area we are excavating appears to be original ground.  The tooth is fairly large and was found next to a vertebrae as well.  I am thinking this could either be bovine or bison.  Any ideas?  

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Darko Regular Member

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Dude, i have very similar tooth...I'm thinking Bos or a Bison.It is big like mine.Nice find!

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could we see the vertabrea as well? it could help for ID.

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Here are a shot of the vertebrae.  Thanks for your help!

 

 

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Darko Regular Member

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32 minutes ago, Silverviper said:

Here are a shot of the vertebrae.  Thanks for your help!

 

 

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Hm..Maybe a bison...I'm not sure tho

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abyssunder Regular Member

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I think the tooth is a Bos (cow) tooth.

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