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Hello together,

here I have 4 fragmentary teeth and only a slight idea what they could be.

 

Nr. 1 is the only one I found myself, in the gravel at teh rhine river. its relatively heavy and colourfull what makes me think it could be (sub-)fossil.

Looks like a bovid or cervid to me. Any further ideas?

 

Nr. 2 I bought on online, together with nr. 4, they where supposedly found in lignite.

Nr. 4 looks like a tiny proboscidean to me (only a layer out of a tooth), with nr. 2 I have got no idea.(small piece of similar layer?

 

Nr. 3 seems to be a carnassial, I think its from china. The texture may tell something to some of you?

 

Thanks in advance for any information you can give me.

Aloha,

J

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Thanks Bobby, that´s convincing, a very close fit as far as I can tell.

I hoped for a hyaena, otherwise it would have been a massive cat.

 

That leaves the two mystery Probsocideans?

 

Cheers,

J

 

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Any idea anybody?  supoposedly found in lignite, looks like layers from an elephantlike molar to me, but they are small, the lines are 5mm appart on the paper.

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Hello together,

I take another try at getting an ID for my mystery teeth.

I still could not find a better match than a tiny proboscideans molar plate, in that case something close to Mamuthus sp, because the other Proboscidena species described from Germany do not have that kind of highly zygodont teeth that fall into "plates". https://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/jart/prj3/nhm/data/uploads/mitarbeiter_dokumente/goehlich/2010/Goehlich_2010_Proboscidea Deutschland.pdf)

Or its something else altogether. I´d love to hear more ideas regarding these specimens that are highly intriguing to me.

Thanks in Advance,

J

 

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For #4... My thought was yours is a more complete baby mammoth "milk tooth" than this single enamel plate that I found down here in SE Texas. Could be wrong. 

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Hi John, that looks like it fits my assumption, size is about right, the structure at least similar, my specimen has  2-3 layers preserved and more pronounced ones of those longitudinal finger-like structure, but its definitely the best match I have seen so far. And you confirm that there are relally mammuth-teeth that small.

Cool!

J

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