Hominid fossil found in travertine floor tile during kitchen renovation

[Oxytropidoceras]

Renovation relic: Man finds hominin jawbone in parents’

travertine kitchen tile. Yes, travertine often has embedded

fossils. But not usually hominin ones. 

Jennifer Ouelette, Ars Technica, April 18, 2024

 

Jawdropping discovery: Remains of extinct human species

that died thousands of years ago found in kitchen floor tiles

Peter hess, Daily Mail, April 19, 2024

 

A dentist found a human jawbone embedded in his parents’ tile floor

Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, April 23, 2024

 

A Dentist Found a Jawbone in a Floor Tile. Fossils are quite common

in this type of stone, but human-looking ones are not.

By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, April 2024

 

Found a mandible in the travertin floor at my parents house, Reddit

My parents just got their home renovated with travertin stone. This 

looks like a section of mandible. Could it be a hominid? Is it usual

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[Brevicollis]

Wow, thats very interesting 

Thanks for sharing it here !

I've found fossils in tiles too, but these we're just Belemnites and Ammonites in tiles from Solnhofen.

[patelinho7]

I'm wondering how the people who installed the tiles did not see the teeth sticking out at them! 

[jpc]

Wow... I saw this thing here a few days ago?  Or was that on the Facebook TFF page?  

[Fin Lover]

49 minutes ago, jpc said:

Wow... I saw this thing here a few days ago?  Or was that on the Facebook TFF page?  

It was on here

[Oxytropidoceras]

I suspect that this specimen came from the travertines of the  Denizli Basin, Turkey.  Some revelent papers are:

 

Vialet, A., Prat, S., Wils, P. and Alcicek, M.C., 2018. The Kocabas hominin (Denizli
Basin, Turkey) at the crossroads of Eurasia: New insights from morphometric and
cladistic analyses. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 17(1-2), pp.17-32.

 

Rausch, L., Alcicek, H., Vialet, A., Boulbes, N., Mayda, S., Titov, V.V., Stoica, M., 
Charbonnier, S., Abels, H.A., Tesakov, A.S. and Moigne, A.M., 2019. An integrated
reconstruction of the early Pleistocene palaeoenvironment of Homo erectus in
the Denizli Basin (SW Turkey). Geobios, 57, pp.77-95.

 

Pasini, G. and Garassino, A., 2011. Unusual scaled preservation samples on

freshwater decapods (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Pleistocene (Late

Cenozoic) of Turkey and Kazakistan. Natural History Sciences, 152(1), pp.13-18.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[Missourian]

  

On 4/23/2024 at 9:09 AM, Oxytropidoceras said:

Renovation relic: Man finds hominin jawbone in parents’

travertine kitchen tile. Yes, travertine often has embedded

fossils. But not usually hominin ones. 

Jennifer Ouelette, Ars Technica, April 18, 2024

 

Lol: "pretty sure the mandible doesn't belong to Jimmy Hoffa."