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Jeanette Pirlo posted an image in the group
Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app 5 years, 1 month ago 5 years, 1 month ago5 years, 1 month agoCT-scanning this tool made out of some type of elephant tusk. Through the scans from this process, we’ll be able to determine who the tusk belonged to! In a follow up picture, after the scans have been processed, I’ll share the cool hatch marks made from the tools used to whittle the tusk! #fossil #method
Cool! @jeanette-pirlo So can you tell the species via microstructure of the tusk material? Or what sort of identifiers does the CT scan help bring out?
Exactly @jbauer it’s the microstructures, in this case the Schreger Pattern, not to be confused with the Hunter-Schreger Bands we see in most mammal teeth, that align in different patterns (V-shapes, X-shaped, or checkerboard) and at different angles that defines the genus of proboscidean. Hoping to figure that out for this tool, as well as potentially determine from which portion of the tusk the tool was made from (the center, edges, etc)