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We were thinking beaver but don't they have orange teeth? Anyway looking forward to hearing your expertise.
beavers teeth has iron hence the orange teeth. most mammals teeth are based on apatite. some animals have other metals like zinc or iron.
I found a very similar one, also in Germany, many years ago. I figured mine was a cow tooth, although I'm not sure how old it was. Most people no longer kept cows in that town at the time that I lived there.
where's the "yo momma" answers? I'm disappointed
be the change you want to see in the world
Looks to me like it's from a creek in Germany.
I'd even go so far to speculate it's from an animal.
It might not be an animal, it might be an African Strangler
I love it when experts from around the world provide their knowledge for curious people!
I need to do chores today, so I instead used my procrastination energy here! It's the molar of a herbivore. Here's what I have:
Definitely not beaver. Beaver incisors are orange and shaped very differently and it's far too large to be a beaver premolar or molar. Wrong morphology anyhow - beaver pre/molars are plicated and this is not. It's also not from a muskrat based on all the same criteria but the plication.
It's definitely from a bovid, not from a caprid or equid. Equids tend to have these bizarre columnar molars, and caprid molars are too small and the wrong shape. Since you're in Germany, that leaves us with cows and European bison.
It's the first or second molar from one of those based on the two cusps; if it had three cusps, it'd be the third molar. What clinches it is the asymmetrical gap in the roots (called a furcation area). Cows have a gap right in the middle of their first and second molars, whereas bison have an off-center gap in their first molar.
Congratulations, you have a bison M1!
Cow X-ray
Bison X-ray
I haven't seen a post like that in four years! Thank you!
Wow astonishing research, thank you!
Thanks! It was 10 times better than normal because I really didn't want to fight spiders while cleaning out the shed.
This is golden age Reddit level content right here
I miss these
What's a bison molar doing in a creek in Germany?
That little part of me thinks you were procrastinating so hard you researched, studied and learnt all that just to put off doing the dishes
Close! I went to college for microbiology, but we got a year-long crash course on general biology, including macroorganisms, plus we had a lot of ag students that I dragged kicking and screaming through their courses as a tutor. I probably spent twenty minutes or so on it because I have a really hazy recall of dentition details.
Wow thanks so much! That's more exciting than I anticipated actually 😄
As others have guessed, this is a bovid tooth, Bos taurus (cow).
Are these serrations typical? They look quite mean.
Yes, very typical.
Looks like some kinda rodent teeth
Likely muskrat or beaver.
Maybe beaver teeth go from orange to brown when they die due to further iron oxidation
Bison/bovine
A bison in Germany?
possibly a bovine, maybe buffalo but not a bison unless its in the US
well I stand corrected. I'm glad there's wild European Bison once again!
Isn't that some kind of incisor? Do they have those? 😅
Yes they do
Germany, you say? It’s local name will be something with WAY too many letters.
Edit: Relax, folks. ALL languages are kinda messy in their own way. There’s a difference between a good-natured joke and heartfelt criticism. I’m not criticizing anything. Plus, I’m speaking English, which is an absolute dumpster fire.
English is perfectly reasonable... if you think taking root words from 3 or 4 languages as a core and fleshing it out with words from another half dozen languages and stitching it together with grammar that kind of matches a couple of those languages is reasonable.
Is english the C++ of languages?
Non-native speakers who become seamlessly fluent genuinely impress me.
English is almost entirely just what feels right. No English speaker has perfect English. I'm sure that Germans have the same with all the 16 uses of "the". English just has more.
Der gemeine Waldundwiesenlangzahn
Nicht aber von Ziege. OP weiß, wie Ziegenfalle aussehen.
Einhörnchen? (That's squirrel, def not one of those)
Oachkatzaischwoafboandl?
Can you take a photo next to a euro coin, for scale?
Or a banana, of course.
Wrong site
I don't have it here unfortunately but it's about 5cm/2" long
I don’t have it here
I assume you cashed it in with the tooth fairy?
I feel like that's ten euros at least.
Looks like Beaver to me.
