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acanthite
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:05 am Post subject: Lower jaw in jungle |
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Another post about something that is not a fossil but close. This is the lower jaw of an adult tapir. In retrospect I should have pulled out a tooth to keep, since the jaw itself was too much for me to carry out along with everything else I had. In another month this bone will have disintegrated, as everything rots quickly in the jungle.
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David Jones
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| It looks a lot like a big hog jaw to me. Where did you find it and how big was it? |
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acanthite
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| It looks a lot like a big hog jaw to me. Where did you find it and how big was it? |
It was about 40 cm in length. Tapirs do look a bit like pigs, but they are most closely related to other odd-toed ungulates like horses and rhinoceroses. I found it in Guyana, west of the Essequibo River. |
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