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Timothy Mayer posted an image in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 6 months ago
3 years, 6 months ago3 years, 6 months agoMandible but of what? Any body know? Completely black. sounds like China when I tap it on a hard surface. Smooth texture. #fossil #collectionsite
I don’t know but that looks like bone and not a fossil
bone from mammal. maybe deer.
Looks canid like
it has carnassial teeth, so it’s carnivore. not a deer at all then. canid is most likely
Thanks all I’m going with a small Fox modern.
online apparently deer teeth are like that… strange. almost same. I did think carnivore… until I found the deer teeth online. sorry!
@smudge-smith you must look carefully at the tooth structure. from a side view the teeth are indeed similar according to a quick Google search l did just now. but there are nonetheless differences, and this jaw seems to belong to a carnivore after all. Deer have flat topped molars with points and holes on top. the meat slicing carnassials of carnivores are rather sharky in appearance being flat from side to side and having 3 pronounced points.
what other carnivores live in your area? if it isn’t fox it could also be maybe a weasel? raccoon?
yes @leonardo-miranda you are right about that…