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Hello all,

 

Can someone please tell me what animal this tooth belonged to?

 

4 centimeters - around 1.6 inches

 

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Thank you!

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Hi,

 

Loos like a horse tooth, but very damaged.

 

Coco

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OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici

Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici
Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici
Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici
Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici
Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici
Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici

Un Greg...

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As I look at the tooth again, it resembles a deciduous premolar from a horse.  I say that because of the way the roots are dished out.  That is how deciduous tooth roots are dissolved by osteoclasts as those teeth are being displaced by permanent teeth.

 

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http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page

 

What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

---Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

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