Kayak-IA Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 I found this fossil on a gravel covered sand bar in a stream in central Iowa. I think it is a mammoth tooth but the shape seems quite unusual. The circular root is small compared to the rest of the tooth. Can someone confirm? This is my first post but I have found lots of interesting stuff in just three trips including an awesome mastodon tooth! Lots of questions too. Thank you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Welcome to TFF! Will need pictures from all sides to make an ID (please include a scale). It is not a mammoth tooth though. 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...
Peace river rat Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 More pics on angles would help, certainly looks to be a tooth of some kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayak-IA Posted May 23, 2019 Author Share Posted May 23, 2019 OK. File size too large to post more than one pic at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayak-IA Posted May 23, 2019 Author Share Posted May 23, 2019 Top view Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayak-IA Posted May 23, 2019 Author Share Posted May 23, 2019 One more pic. Had to use lower resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayak-IA Posted May 23, 2019 Author Share Posted May 23, 2019 One more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Can We see a picture straight on to the broken "root"? 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...
Kayak-IA Posted May 23, 2019 Author Share Posted May 23, 2019 Root. Still packed with hard clay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 I wonder if this could be a broken horn... 1 ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 I was thinking that it looks like a horn also. 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...
Kayak-IA Posted May 23, 2019 Author Share Posted May 23, 2019 Root. Still packed with hard clay. I found two pre-historic bison horns. Much different and much much lighter in weight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayak-IA Posted May 23, 2019 Author Share Posted May 23, 2019 The unknown "tooth" is solid as a rock but the root is not fossilized rock. Makes me think it is a tooth from the Proboscidean period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayak-IA Posted May 23, 2019 Author Share Posted May 23, 2019 Last pic is second bison horn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Breakin' Rocks Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Yeah .. is this some sort of mastodon ... tooth ? A partial ... The root sort of feels like it. But man, it has such a funky shape ... B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace river rat Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 1 hour ago, Kayak-IA said: Top view This screams tooth enamel. Possibly some abnormal tooth? Too big to be much else but Proboscidean ? Take my opinion with a lump of salt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Looks to me like a pathological "mammodon" tooth . . . that is, a cross between a mastodont (root) and mammoth (crown). Seriously speaking, I think it is from a mammoth. Very unusual. 7 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 4 hours ago, Harry Pristis said: Seriously speaking, I think it is from a mammoth. Very unusual. Perhaps a molar that really wanted to be a tusk ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 2 hours ago, Rockwood said: Perhaps a molar that really wanted to be a tusk ? A "molcisor" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Uh ha, a molcisor from a mammodon. Google that one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 10 hours ago, Harry Pristis said: Looks to me like a pathological "mammodon" tooth . . . that is, a cross between a mastodont (root) and mammoth (crown). Seriously speaking, I think it is from a mammoth. Very unusual. I totally agree. Spectacular! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 I agree with Harry. Very cool and strange! ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sseth Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 It is an unerupted mammoth tooth but it does have a funny shape. _____________________________________ Seth www.fossilshack.com www.americanfossil.com www.fishdig.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayak-IA Posted May 23, 2019 Author Share Posted May 23, 2019 Thanks for the reply! I think your spot on. Nothing like a mastodon tooth...like this one I found on my previous float. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelhead9 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 I think it is a worn piece of a mammoth tooth. Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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