You found my dentures!
/johnny
Swamp gas?
Unlikely to find large mammal fossils in the same area as moasaur, but not impossible if they were washed together from very different strata.
You found my dentures!
I wish I could help you but I will say that it is pretty cool. Do you hunt for them or just happen by them? I’m wondering if the Smithsonian could assist you? Perhaps you could send the photos to one of their experts?
Second, wish I could help with the fossils, but this is really cool. I want to take my kids on an outing here in AZ specifically to hunt some down, maybe do some gold prospecting as well.
Good luck identifying them.
I would read up on the local geology of the area where you found them and see if there are any descriptions of fossils. You can narrow things down a lot if you know the relative ages of the rock units the fossils came from, and origin of those rocks, i.e. marine, continental, etc.
The last pictures look like they could be broken parts from a mastadon tooth. Mammoth teeth are flat with ridges, but mastadon teeth have peaks on them.
It’s difficult to tell from the picture: Does the object in pics 2-4 appear to be a single tooth?
It’s too small for an adult pachyderm. And the tooth in 2-4 doesn’t resemble an elephant molar.
Also, the incisor would rule out a pachyderm. The bones look mammalian ... probably a pig of some sort based on dentition.
Any idea how old these are? You should have some estimate of ages of fossils commonly found in your area.
The far left fossil is probably Odocoelius virgianus( whitetail deer
The longer vertically oriented piece beneath the Equus molar is an Equus lower molar
There are several fragments which are clearly the vertebral bodies of a mammal and one looks to be perhap an alligator (Alligator mississipiensis)
The white piece at the six-oclock position is a superior molar of the species Tapirus. I cannot tell the species, but is probably Tapirus excelcus or Tapirus veroensis.
The large fragements are clearly those of a superior cusp of a Mammut americanus, the American mastodon.
There are two inferior teeth, probalby Equus or possibly Tanupalama, but I cannot see the occlusive surfaces, so I cannot be sure.
The other pieces are nondescript fragments of mamallian longbones.
Hope this helps.
I have some mastadon bones I found in a peat bog. So well preserved there was still strips of pliable meat on the bones.
Actually found the whole mastadon. A cow and a baby laying on their backs. Landowner gave the find to a college, but they never found that femur, rib and vertebra. : )
One of our guys recently found a mastadon tooth in a different part of the state, but only about a third of the size of the one in the previous pictures.
Can you tell us approximately where you collected them? It would help to know the age of the nearby rocks.
And, be careful about collecting vertebrate fossils on public land because there is a new law restricting it:
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/CRM/paleontology/fossil_collecting.html
The one looks like the K9 of a large cat. The vertebra pieces indicates a medium size animal.
A young Saber Tooth or something from a smaller species?
check out this site on Saber Tooth (Relatives)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saber-toothed_cat#Saber-tooth_evolutionary_tree
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They look like rocks to me. Hope that helped.
Is your computer plugged in?
Are you logged on?
Are you anywhere near the W.M. Browning Cretaceous Fossil Park near Frankstown? Maybe they could help.
