Hello all,

my mothers boyfriend found this strange thing that looked like a tooth in his yard, and asked me if I could try and found out what it was on the internet. I took some pictures, but my camera is not that good with macro shots, so they came out a bit undetailed, but I hope you can help me anyway.
The dimensions are ca. 5x2x2 cm. and it was found in Kristiansand, on the southern tip of Norway.

http://www.spongeart.com/misc/tooth/left.jpg
http://www.spongeart.com/misc/tooth/front.jpg
http://www.spongeart.com/misc/tooth/right.jpg
http://www.spongeart.com/misc/tooth/back.jpg
http://www.spongeart.com/misc/tooth/bottom.jpg

from the above pictures, is someone able to identify it?

thanks,
-zk

Hi Zkreso!

Hmm...interesting.

I think, but am not certain, that what you have there is a partial horse's tooth. Compare your 'left' view with that in the top picture in this site:

Prehistoric Megafauna of the Wekiva River Basin (http://www.wekivariver.org/documentary/honors302/megafauna/www/horse.html)

If you have a google image search on 'horse tooth' or 'horse teeth' you will find a few images that really look quite similar. However, I'll shoot off an e-mail to TONMO member GeoffC and see what he thinks. Geoff studies animal bone material as part of his job, he'll have a much better idea than me.

Thanks for posting it.

Hi Zkreso! Hi Phil!

Sorry not to see this sooner, I'm not near a computer much at the moment. Anyway, yes I think Phil's right, it looks like a horse tooth from the upper jaw (which are more square in cross section), without actually seeing the tooth it's a bit difficult to say. The root end is shown on your 'right' picture.

Cheers
Geoff

Hi all,

thanks for replying, I had a gut feeling that it might have been a horse tooth. Actually I didn't really expect any replies, so thanks again for answering!

-zk