Fossil horse tooth
Fossil
Also called Equus tooth and Fossil horse
About it
Tall, squared-off grinding teeth whose chewing face shows looping folds of enamel. Very common in Florida rivers and Ice Age gravels across North America; vertebrates on Florida state land need a fossil permit.
- Type
- Fossil (vertebrate)
- Group
- Horse (mammal)
- Colours
- black, grey, brown, tan
- Transparency
- opaque
- Periods
- Neogene, Quaternary
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.