Found this animal tooth in a creek in Germany. Any ideas what it could be from?
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We were thinking beaver but don't they have orange teeth? Anyway looking forward to hearing your expertise.
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We were thinking beaver but don't they have orange teeth? Anyway looking forward to hearing your expertise.
Looks like Beaver to me.
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We were thinking beaver but don't they have orange teeth? Anyway looking forward to hearing your expertise.
Can you take a photo next to a euro coin, for scale?
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Can you take a photo next to a euro coin, for scale?
I don't have it here unfortunately but it's about 5cm/2" long
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Can you take a photo next to a euro coin, for scale?
Or a banana, of course.
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We were thinking beaver but don't they have orange teeth? Anyway looking forward to hearing your expertise.
Germany, you say? It’s local name will be something with WAY too many letters.
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We were thinking beaver but don't they have orange teeth? Anyway looking forward to hearing your expertise.
Bison/bovine
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Einhörnchen? (That's squirrel, def not one of those)
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Bison/bovine
Isn't that some kind of incisor? Do they have those?
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Germany, you say? It’s local name will be something with WAY too many letters.
Der gemeine Waldundwiesenlangzahn
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We were thinking beaver but don't they have orange teeth? Anyway looking forward to hearing your expertise.
Likely muskrat or beaver.
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Likely muskrat or beaver.
Maybe beaver teeth go from orange to brown when they die due to further iron oxidation
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I don't have it here unfortunately but it's about 5cm/2" long
I don’t have it here
I assume you cashed it in with the tooth fairy?
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I don’t have it here
I assume you cashed it in with the tooth fairy?
I feel like that's ten euros at least.
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Bison/bovine
A bison in Germany?
possibly a bovine, maybe buffalo but not a bison unless its in the US
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We were thinking beaver but don't they have orange teeth? Anyway looking forward to hearing your expertise.
Looks like some kinda rodent teeth
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Or a banana, of course.
Wrong site
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We were thinking beaver but don't they have orange teeth? Anyway looking forward to hearing your expertise.
As others have guessed, this is a bovid tooth, Bos taurus (cow).
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As others have guessed, this is a bovid tooth, Bos taurus (cow).
Are these serrations typical? They look quite mean.
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We were thinking beaver but don't they have orange teeth? Anyway looking forward to hearing your expertise.
I need to do chores today, so I instead used my procrastination energy here! It's the molar of a herbivore. Here's what I have:
Definitely not beaver. Beaver incisors are orange and shaped very differently and it's far too large to be a beaver premolar or molar. Wrong morphology anyhow - beaver pre/molars are plicated and this is not. It's also not from a muskrat based on all the same criteria but the plication.
It's definitely from a bovid, not from a caprid or equid. Equids tend to have these bizarre columnar molars, and caprid molars are too small and the wrong shape. Since you're in Germany, that leaves us with cows and European bison.
It's the first or second molar from one of those based on the two cusps; if it had three cusps, it'd be the third molar. What clinches it is the asymmetrical gap in the roots (called a furcation area). Cows have a gap right in the middle of their first and second molars, whereas bison have an off-center gap in their first molar.
Congratulations, you have a bison M1!
Cow X-ray
Bison X-ray
