green1 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 This is my first post. Hope I got the right size on the photo. Can anyone identify? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Looks like Tapir, where was it found? www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green1 Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share Posted October 28, 2008 Looks like Tapir, where was it found? Creekbed in SW Arkansas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green1 Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share Posted October 28, 2008 Looks like Tapir, where was it found? I did the burn test it definately fossilized ... is that the right word? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 I'm with Nate, it seems to be Tapir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green1 Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share Posted October 28, 2008 I'm with Nate, it seems to be Tapir. Cool! So how long have they been extinct in North America? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 I believe they went extinct during the Pleistocene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Cool! So how long have they been extinct in North America? The match test indicates to what degree the bone is mineralized. Tapirs (Tapirus sp.) survived quite late into the Pleistocene. I have a tapir radius with butcher marks from Gilchrist County, Florida. I suspect that such a fossil is a rare find in Arkansas. WTG! http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
explorer1 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 This is my first post. Hope I got the right size on the photo. Can anyone identify? UH GUYS WAIT LOOK AT IT AGAIN. CAN YOU GIVE US A PIC OF THE TOP OR CROWN OF THE JAW. i need to see the top of the teeth. thanks and it does look like tapir. also i have gravel for sale check the trade room or my posts. god hunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Welcome to the forum, and nice find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green1 Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share Posted October 28, 2008 UH GUYS WAIT LOOK AT IT AGAIN. CAN YOU GIVE US A PIC OF THE TOP OR CROWN OF THE JAW. i need to see the top of the teeth. thanks and it does look like tapir. I do but it's not a very good photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Welcome to the Forum, green1! You have the procedures and protocalls down cold; I assume that you are either a quick study, or that you've been hanging out for a while before you joined (or both). Nice fossil, BTW "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
explorer1 Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 I do but it's not a very good photo darn , i was looking for a certain tapir, that is sweeet. nice keep it up. also i have gravel for sale check the trade room or my posts. god hunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green1 Posted October 29, 2008 Author Share Posted October 29, 2008 darn , i was looking for a certain tapir, that is sweeet. nice keep it up. Thanks! And to all for the welcome and the info! My husband makes fun of me because I am always picking up interesting rocks and looking for arrowheads, etc. That's what i was really doing when i found this. The jaw was actually buried tooth side down and it just looked like a piece of wood sticking out of the mud, don't know why I picked it up to begin with so i was a little freaked when the piece of wood had teeth! I immediately new it was something unusual though. BTW - can you tell in the picture there is another molar that had not erupted? Does that mean this was a young Tapir? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Yes, there is one tooth that had not erupted yet. It was not an adult animal. www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Thanks! And to all for the welcome and the info! My husband makes fun of me because I am always picking up interesting rocks and looking for arrowheads, etc. That's what i was really doing when i found this. The jaw was actually buried tooth side down and it just looked like a piece of wood sticking out of the mud, don't know why I picked it up to begin with so i was a little freaked when the piece of wood had teeth! I immediately new it was something unusual though.BTW - can you tell in the picture there is another molar that had not erupted? Does that mean this was a young Tapir? You can see a juvenile tapir jaw here in one of the Forum albums. http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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