Two And A Half Teeth.
John found the first two teeth recently in North Sulphur River (Cretaceous) and has asked me to post them here for id. The larger of the two is definintely mineralized--the encrustations on the lingual surfaces are rock hard. The smaller "half" tooth also does not appear to be recent.
The third tooth fragment isn't much to look at, and it may not be identifiable, but I was real shocked to find it--in an area recently excavated here in the Kiamichi formation. (Right across the road from our farm
'Al Dente' is correct . . . cows often do have stylids on their cheek teeth. It is common to see stylids on the deciduous teeth of cows. But, these cow stylids are usually weak and thin-walled when compared to the robust teeth of bison. In fact, the cow stylids often fall away once the cementum of the tooth is gone.
I think the tooth in question here is probably a cow m3 with the weak stylid held in place by the residual cementum. Keep in mind that differentiation of isolated teeth of closel
