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1. How to Post Pictures on Black River Fossils Forums by ditchweezil
2. How to Post Pictures on Black River Fossils Forums by Daryl
Below is an image of a tooth I found along Calvert Cliffs a few years ago and sent to the Calvert Marine Museum and Smithsonian for ID help. No one could positively ID it, and I can't remember what their guess(s) might have been. Anyone got any ideas? Note: While posting this I see the image looks quite small, I hope it gets larger after I make the post. I made a similar post earlier with a similar "size" pic and it came out larger, not sure why?
Daryl.
Hey Daryl, Is the picture that small on your computer? If its not, you might try attaching the image again.
The tooth looks like it could be dugong. Can you post a picture of the enamel pattern on the chewing surface? Sometimes that helps in the ID.
Aha, I figured out how to get the images to be larger. Make sure the original isn't wider than the window that the text for your post fits in. Once I cropped the original I got it to fit in its larger size.
So, now that you can see the specimen a bit better, anyone have any ideas what this belonged to?
Two questions. What are the dimensions of the tooth? Do you have, or can you get, a pic looking straight down on the masticating surface?
The tooth is 10 mm tall and about 6 mm wide. I don't have a pic of the masticating surface, but I can try with my digital camera. My scanner won't work with my new laptop which has Vista on it.
It actually reminds me of the cap of a peccary tooth I have that's still in a section of jaw. It's the first or second mandibular tooth behind the diastima, but I have no idea what the roots look like for that position.
I thought it might be peccary as well, but the roots splay outwards instead of inwards. I found a picture at http://www.paleopress.net/peccary.htm. I know there are different species of peccary so an exact comparison might not be accurate here.