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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.

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More pics on angles would help, certainly looks to be a tooth of some kind.

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I wonder if this could be a broken horn... 

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Root.  Still packed with hard clay.

 

I found two pre-historic bison horns.  Much different and much much lighter in weight.

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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.

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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 ...

 

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1 hour ago, Kayak-IA said:

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This screams tooth enamel. Possibly some abnormal tooth? Too big to be much else but Proboscidean ? Take my opinion with a lump of salt.

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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.

 

 

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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 ? :headscratch:

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2 hours ago, Rockwood said:

Perhaps a molar that really wanted to be a tusk ? :headscratch:

A "molcisor" ?  :thumbsu:

 

 

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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!

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Thanks for the reply!  I think your spot on.  Nothing like a mastodon tooth...like this one I found on my previous float.

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