Minnesota Peat Bog Tooth Needs ID

[dbrake40]

This incisor tooth was mixed with some bison specimens from a peat bog site found in the early 80s in Sherburn County, Minnesota. The specimen catalog is long lost. Pollen analysis at the time dated the site to between 5000 and 10000 years old. The specimens were thought to be washed into the site in a flood event.

 

 

Edited April 25 by dbrake40
Clarification

[Fossildude19]

Some more in focus, up close pictures may be required.

 

Cropped and brightened:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rockwood]

The condition may make it hard to identify for certain, especially since incisor teeth are often similar in different species, but deer incisor seems likely to me. 

[Mark Kmiecik]

I think it's a bit small to be deer, even juvenile.

[Harry Pristis]

I don't recognize the incisor, but here are deer teeth for comparison:

 

[Rockwood]

4 hours ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

I think it's a bit small to be deer, even juvenile.

My deer skull was left back in Maine, but deer aren't really that big of an animal. I don't think this is too small for an adult deer. A fawn is tiny. 

[Rockwood]

1 hour ago, Harry Pristis said:

I don't recognize the incisor, but here are deer teeth for comparison:

No offense Harry, but the politician's response isn't going to cut it. How big is a deer tooth.  

[Harry Pristis]

I failed to make clear my point:  I don't think this is a deer incisor based on the shape.  It appears to me to be a cropping tooth from a grazer like a sheep - a bovid, but that does not comport with the reported context of the find.

 

 

 

 

[Rockwood]

13 minutes ago, Harry Pristis said:

I failed to make clear my point:  I don't think this is a deer incisor based on the shape.

I don't think its true shape can be determined.