Blind.In.Texas
Bronze Member
Posted this in Today's Finds, but, I suppose that was the wrong place. Here it is in the correct department. If anyone has any information leading to the positive identification of this piece and/or any other piece that follows I will gladly say thank you.
These were found at the Brazos river. Inside bend in the river, long gravel beach that was very wide, in about one foot of water on a mud slope. Water was clear and a fine slime covered all items near this. Please help a stray item get its history back. Thank you in advance.
The other pieces I will post were found in the same area within a few feet radius. I am thinking that there me be some sort of deposit on that particular spot and it is slowly being uncovered. I can't get back down there right no because the highway workers are active building the bridge today. Wasted drive.....
This is absolutely, positively a tooth, it is very heavy. The material inside between the chewing ridges is very hard, shiny and darkbrown. This is not a new tooth. The root is the part on top in the picture and the whole thing is very heavy. It is just like holding a rock. It clinks like rock when it is tapped with a rock. I know that newteeth are hollow once the root and dentin rots out.
I am really puzzled as to what the owner was.
These are two more pics of the same tooth from different sides. In one you will see the grinding surface does not match Mastadon or Mammoth grinding surfaces. I did check out that link. Nice teeth too. It would be nice to find some like that.
What I find unusual is the angle of the grinding surface. From a slack-jawed whatz-it? A woolly-whatever?
These were found at the Brazos river. Inside bend in the river, long gravel beach that was very wide, in about one foot of water on a mud slope. Water was clear and a fine slime covered all items near this. Please help a stray item get its history back. Thank you in advance.
The other pieces I will post were found in the same area within a few feet radius. I am thinking that there me be some sort of deposit on that particular spot and it is slowly being uncovered. I can't get back down there right no because the highway workers are active building the bridge today. Wasted drive.....
This is absolutely, positively a tooth, it is very heavy. The material inside between the chewing ridges is very hard, shiny and darkbrown. This is not a new tooth. The root is the part on top in the picture and the whole thing is very heavy. It is just like holding a rock. It clinks like rock when it is tapped with a rock. I know that newteeth are hollow once the root and dentin rots out.
I am really puzzled as to what the owner was.
These are two more pics of the same tooth from different sides. In one you will see the grinding surface does not match Mastadon or Mammoth grinding surfaces. I did check out that link. Nice teeth too. It would be nice to find some like that.
What I find unusual is the angle of the grinding surface. From a slack-jawed whatz-it? A woolly-whatever?
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