Ramon Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Hello, I recently found this object at the beach in Bolivar Peninsula, Tx. The fossils from the beach are washing out of an offshore late pleistocene deposit, probably from the Beaumont formation. I picked it up thinking it was some shell fragment, but it looks to me like it might be some enamel from a tooth. It has shades of colors bright orange, reds, and tints of blue and grey. Let me know what y’all think about it. Top side Top side revealing the texture patterns which look like they’ve been eroded. Bottom side (there seems to be a layer of a different material on top the of the “enamel”) 1 "Without fossils, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the earth" - Georges Cuvier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramon Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 More pictures.. Pictures of the edges (Notice the different colors, it reminds me of the enamel I have seen in various fossilized teeth) "Without fossils, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the earth" - Georges Cuvier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyc Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 The edges do look like mastodon teeth fragments that I have 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pemphix Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Agreed that it is enamel, some fragment from lamellar teeth, but it's to small to determine, i'm afraid - therefore not necessarly mammut/mastodon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 The flatness suggest mammoth more than mastodon to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramon Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 Thanks for the responses!! I guess I’ll just label it as Proboscidea Indet. "Without fossils, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the earth" - Georges Cuvier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 3 hours ago, Ramon said: Thanks for the responses!! I guess I’ll just label it as Proboscidea Indet. BRAVO!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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