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Found this little artiodactyl tooth on one of my trips to the Colorado River near Wharton, Texas about a month ago and have had some trouble getting a concrete ID. Any teeth other than bison or horse are basically impossible to find in the Brazos and so I'm way out of my depth with this one. I'm assuming it's too small to be camelid and the pictures I've seen that most closely resemble it are of antilocaprid teeth. This one must be an m3, the third lobe is just broken off (which you can see pretty clearly in the third and the fifth pictures). The occlusal surface is 1.5 cm across but obviously would be longer if the rest of the tooth was still there. As always, thanks for looking, and I'd be incredibly grateful if anybody can confirm my suspicions or point me in the right direction. I'll tag some of the Pleistocene experts that have been particularly helpful in the past: @Harry Pristis @Lorne Ledger @garyc @Shellseeker - love that these guys are a part of this forum!
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The wife and I finally got to explore a hill that I had been looking at for years. This was in early September of 2016. The back roads of Northern Colorado enjoy the scenery. Didn't take very long to start finding things. All I had with me was a water bottle for size. The ridge we were standing on.
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On a recent safari through northern Kenya my son picked up a fossil while we were in Sibiloi National Park, Turkana Kenya. After a closer examination I could see that it was the top of an ungulates skull. Here are some images of the skull. I took some basic measurements and we returned the skull to where we found it. Rufous and I would very much like to know what species of antelope this might be. Many of the other fossils in the area appear to be shells, fish verterbra, and crocodian and turtle discoveries have been made close by. Many Thanks for your ideas.
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Antelope metapodial and calcaneum from Late Pleistocene
D.N.FossilmanLithuania posted a topic in Fossil ID
Dear Guys, I have two possible bones of antelopes, they are very small to ungulates. I found these two bones in the Late Pleistocene sand layers of Varena town, South Lithuania. The calcaneum is only 4 cm length, metapodial- 10,5 cm length. The confirmation of these fossils would be very helpful to my further articles. Any idea what is this? Best Regards Domas -
September 6, 2009 It happens in all areas of life. Yet, sometimes the unexpected is manifested in remarkable circumstances. Last January, Dan and I were scrambling across a rocky bar in a Texas stream. To help keep our focus during a cold downpour and intermittent showers, we joked with various sandstone "fossils" we picked up. The erosive nature of water and gravel creates thousands of pseudofossils, and we were finding them with frequency. "Hey Dan, here's your mammoth tooth! Catch!" (Please do not try this at home.) "Yeah, yeah, and this must be your sabre-tooth fang!" So it went until we had scoured the midstream rock bar. Walking back to the canoe, I grabbed another, algae covered piece of sandstone and held it up toward him. "What do you think this is?" I jested. Without missing a beat in time, he blurted, "Tetrameryx shuleri!" We both laughed at the green check mark shaped formation. As I pictured the weird-horned, pleistocene antelope, I thought it was too bad it was sandstone. Dan was back at the canoe, so I tossed it back with the rest of its slimy kin...and it broke. We'd been pitching broken sandstone all day, but the whitish core that caught my eye wasn't normal. It didn't get any more normal when I picked up both pieces to show Dan. "OK, now what do you think this is?" I said. His jaw dropped...somewhere on the ground with mine! The joke was on us! It wasn't just sandstone anymore. It really was Tetrameryx shuleri! It was incredible an example of the unexpected. A week ago, we teamed up again to see what treasures we could discover. The quarry was Pleistocene bones or paleo artifacts. I gently eased the stern of the boat onto a few rocks near the edge of a shallow riffle. Large chert cobbles and gravel stretched across the river, just beneath the surface. As I tended to the canoe, Dan lifted a large flint tool from beneath the water. His find re-focused us to the potential of this spot. We scanned the subsurface terrain without a find. I walked back near the canoe and stopped to survey the area. Dan started to view the carp swimming nearby with a predatory stare. I looked down at the cobbles in front of me. Leaves were trapped by the current against some of them. One of the stones triggered a moment of recognition and denial, "Hey Dan, too bad we can't find any mosasaur material around here." Both of us were so focused on our primary targets that we had forgotten about some Upper Cretaceous faulting in the area. Yet, when my hand wrapped around the underwater "stone" there were more micro-moments of recognition. As the water dripped from my find and hand, I almost gulped out loud. "It is a mosasaur vert! Wow, it's big!" Dan sloshed closer, "Whoa! Let me see that! Hey, it is a mosasaur vert!" Being quoted so soon was very complimentary...we both just shook our heads. I thought of our January trip and said, "What does this remind you of?" "Tetrameryx shuleri!" Dan replied. In both situations, it was written all over our faces...we had been caught off-guard. I wasn't even sure I would believe these stories if I hadn't been a witness to them. Of all the fossils we thought we would find, this was the unexpected.
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Well, it's been a very long time since I've shown you guys some fossils, so I just went out and took some photos of some stuff from my last couple dives. Here's two Florida auriculatus teeth...pretty uncommon out of any river other than the Suwannee, but I have a small site that seems to occasionally produce them. The bite damage on the lighter colored one really makes it a real heart breaker...very rarely do you get those colors from any Eocene teeth here unless you find a mine...and of course, only the tip was buried when I first saw it, so I just knew it was going to be flawless. Next is this thing I found yesterday evening: Capromeryx (antelope) horn cores from the Blancan (latest Pliocene/earliest Pleistocene.) Yes, one of the horns are broken off, but for something this rare I won't complain a bit. Click HERE and look at the antelope's head...that's this piece - the two horns and part of the eye socket. -Cris
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