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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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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:57 am    Post subject:
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David Jones wrote:
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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