darrow Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 I found this a couple months ago and initially thought it was a small fragment of a bison tooth or something. This evening I looked at is a little closer and after a some internet research I'm kinda thinking the lower corner incisor of a camel or llama? Can someone confirm? If so, is there a way to distinguish between the two? Darrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear-dog Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Hard to tell with only that amount of tooth left and angle of the photo. Bear-dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Yes, this is a camelid incisor. 1 www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted March 20, 2011 Author Share Posted March 20, 2011 Hard to tell with only that amount of tooth left and angle of the photo. Bear-dog Darrow Confusion loves company! Glad someone else thought it looked like a fragment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted March 20, 2011 Author Share Posted March 20, 2011 Yes, this is a camelid incisor. Understanding the pleistocene material dredged from Galveston Bay may infact have been transported by rivers and streams from much older deposits further insland in SE Texas, (or for that matter, transported by ship from another continent like zebra mussels in North America... guess it could then be called an "invasive fossil" :laughing on the floor 24: ). ...any way, it there a way to distinguish camel from llama? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Understanding the pleistocene material dredged from Galveston Bay may infact have been transported by rivers and streams from much older deposits further insland in SE Texas, (or for that matter, transported by ship from another continent like zebra mussels in North America... guess it could then be called an "invasive fossil" :laughing on the floor 24: ). ...any way, it there a way to distinguish camel from llama? it is more likely that the fossils were brought in to where you found them from offshore than the opposite. the coastline was miles further out during the pleistocene, so what is usually found may come from near a river, but it's a drowned mouth of a river under the gulf. and the tooth isn't from an "invasive fossil". camelids started out in north america. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 For comparison: 1 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...
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