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Found these two in south carolina near the Summerville and Charleston area, im fairly certain one is a tusk but if anyone could give more details on which type on elephant it could’ve been since im not familiar with the area. The second one is a horse tooth (I think) but I am a primarily florida hunter so I would like to know if its a three toed horse or another species since it looks different then the ones ive found down here.

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I don't know about the first item, but I think there are only Equus in Summerville.

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It appears to be an Equus tooth, not pre-Equus. 

 

I'm not familiar with South Carolina fossils, but could this be a walrus tusk or whale tooth?  

 

https://www.scmuseum.org/learn/deeper-dive-series/fossil-facts-ancient-walrus-tusk-found-south-carolina

 

@Boesse

 

I'm not seeing the Schreger lines I would expect to see in mammoth, mastodon, or gomphothere.

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The equus tooth is a newly erupted upper.  It has just high point wear.

 

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What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

---Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

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