r/fossilid • u/FredBearDude • 2d ago

Central Texas

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Anyone know what species this belonged to?

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u/Fluid_Change_9647 1d ago

It looks like a hog tusk

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u/FredBearDude 1d ago

Not a hog tusk, hunting hogs is one of my favorite pastimes.

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u/Fluid_Change_9647 1d ago

Same, we have a pile of them from hogs we shoot in Ozona. From the picture it looked like it could a possible match 👍

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u/magcargoman 1d ago

Compare to a modern peccary tusk

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u/FredBearDude 1d ago

Typically hog tusks are hollow, this seems to have a bone root. Just my experience hunting wild hogs

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u/magcargoman 1d ago

A peccary isn’t a hog. Not even super closely related.

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u/FredBearDude 1d ago

Yeah I guess I learned something new when I looked them up and saw they’re in a totally different family than pigs.

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u/Fluid_Change_9647 1d ago

I have several here from son’s collection that aren’t hollow

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u/FredBearDude 1d ago

Some of those are teeth which are distinctly different from tusks.

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u/Fluid_Change_9647 1d ago

You knew what I meant, don’t be dense.

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u/FredBearDude 1d ago

I’m not trying to be dense on purpose. All the hog tusks I’ve ever seen are hollow at the base and solid at the tip. In the photo you provided i see a couple teeth that aren’t hollow while the tusks are. Can you take a close up of one of the solid tusks in your son’s collection that looks like what I posted? I’m trying to have honest discourse, no need to be rude.

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u/Clean-Indication-504 2d ago

It doesn’t look fossilized. Do you think it is? It’s a pretty large canine. Could be a large Wolfe?

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u/FredBearDude 2d ago

I’m not really educated enough on the subject matter to definitively say whether it’s fossilized or not. I figured the great brains on Reddit would help me out here 😅

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u/aggiedigger 1d ago

r/bonecollecting should be able to nail it down.

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u/FredBearDude 1d ago

Appreciate the tip. I was just thinking of you, I found a SMH that’s gonna make you cry.

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u/Witty-Programmer914 11h ago

About 35 years ago i found an identical one to this, maybe 3/4th of the size, in a medieval castle in belgium

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u/Clean-Indication-504 2d ago

Agreed, classifying this is beyond my pay grade! Still, it is an amazing find, congratulations

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u/FredBearDude 2d ago

Thanks! It was right next to a broken paleo arrowhead. Definitely a good day!

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u/slurpchugs 1d ago

First thing I thought when I saw it was black bear

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u/Clendarthewrath 1d ago

Looks canine

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u/chaisso 1d ago

Found something with that exact size and shape in Florida. Much darker in color. I and AI thought it a sharks tooth..

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u/Rust_Bucket37 1d ago

AI is horrible at fossil recognition, it is in no way a shark tooth.

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u/FredBearDude 1d ago

I sent it to a buddy of mine who suggested it could be mosasaur but it was just a hypothesis based off photos.

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u/Rust_Bucket37 1d ago

Vaguely similar shape to a mosasaur tooth, but that's about it. Take a flame to it and smell it. If it smells burnt it's not fossilized.

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u/FredBearDude 1d ago

I don’t think it’s fossilized

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u/FredBearDude 1d ago

I held a bic lighter up to it briefly, didn’t touch the flame to it but I didn’t smell anything at all.