DE&i Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 I can’t be 100 percent sure of the age of the deposit from where these Bison tooth came from. But it would almost certainly fall into a late Holocene early Pleistocene era. Continued : Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 Continued : Would anyone know what the blue pigment would represent in this tooth. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelhead9 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Whatever minerals leached into the bone during mineralization. Blue is usually from vivianite. 2 Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 (edited) I agree! If I remember correctly, I have seen this color on proboscidean tusks (e.g. mammoth tusk) and it was associated with Vivianite and dentin. to be more precise... excerpt from G. McGowan & J. Prangnell. 2006. The significance of vivianite in archaeological settings. Geoarcheology 21(1): 93-111 Edited January 20, 2019 by abyssunder 3 " 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...
DE&i Posted January 21, 2019 Author Share Posted January 21, 2019 Thank you @abyssunderand @steelhead9 Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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