Mammoth Tooth Milnerton?
Mammoth Tooth Milnerton?







Hi all,
Sunday morning I left early for milnerton beach and when I arrived it was
still a bit dark.
I was sitting in the car and saw someone with a flash light on the beach, I tried
it ones myself but didn’t like it and I think it’s to dangers in SA.
The water was far out and there where only a bit of shell on the high water mark,
same as Saturday when I found 3 small shark teeth.
The guy with the flash light had found nothing and I walked along the high water
mark when some other hunters arrived on the beach.
After half an hour I had found one small perfect black Mako lower jaw tooth
and decided to go home for break feast and walked along the lagoon as a guy waded a cross the lagoon with a big black thing under his arm.
Some other guys met up with him and the conversation got a bit louder, he had found a piece of jaw with what looked to me a big mammoth tooth.
I couldn’t believe it, I had never seen a tooth like that in real, the others left the guy after a wile to look for more shark teeth but I was so fascinated from this big tooth that I stayed and listened what the finder and his friend where going to do with the tooth.
As the discussion reached a point where the one suggested to “break the bone of to expose the tooth” I made an offer and bought the Jaw right there and brought it home safely.
Now I’m the proud owner of a mammoth tooth?
Regards from Cape Town
Werner
[Bewerkt door Afrikaner op 25-05-2009 om 06:17 NL]
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- Frisian-old-age
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Hi Werner,
That's one big buy, you'll made.Congrantz.
Keep a eye on that lagoon, when there's one maybe there are more and other pleistocene material.
greetz,
Age
[Bewerkt door Frisian-old-age op 25-05-2009 om 08:18 NL]
That's one big buy, you'll made.Congrantz.

Keep a eye on that lagoon, when there's one maybe there are more and other pleistocene material.
greetz,
Age
[Bewerkt door Frisian-old-age op 25-05-2009 om 08:18 NL]
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Hi Age,
you bet I will keep my eys open in future!
Regards
Werner
you bet I will keep my eys open in future!
Regards
Werner
Better a bad Day at the Beach - than a good Day at the Office!!
- Gerrit-Jan
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Congrats Werner, a very nice found!
Greetings
Greetings
Niets is leuker dan fossielen zoeken met vrienden :)
- Hieronymus
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Very nice find!
You've got mail too...
Jeroen
You've got mail too...
Jeroen
Rhaetian Lorraine Region
http://rhaetianlorraine.webs.com
http://rhaetianlorraine.webs.com
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THANK"S AGAIN FOR YOUR INPUT!hieronymus schreef:
Very nice find!
You've got mail too...
Jeroen
Werner
Better a bad Day at the Beach - than a good Day at the Office!!
- Hieronymus
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No problem, it's important to conservate it, it would be a shame for that piece to be falling apart.
Greetings,
Jeroen
Greetings,
Jeroen
Rhaetian Lorraine Region
http://rhaetianlorraine.webs.com
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Hi Werner,
Very nice find!!!
Although I wouldn't call it directly a Mammoth.
Not familiar with African species but a short research learned its either a:
- Primelephas
- Elephas
- Mammuthus
- Palaeoloxodon
Google a bit and try to find out which species roamed the southern part of Africa.
By the way I think its a m3 in the left lower jaw.
[Bewerkt door The Stone op 25-05-2009 om 20:45 NL]
Very nice find!!!
Although I wouldn't call it directly a Mammoth.
Not familiar with African species but a short research learned its either a:
- Primelephas
- Elephas
- Mammuthus
- Palaeoloxodon
Google a bit and try to find out which species roamed the southern part of Africa.
By the way I think its a m3 in the left lower jaw.
[Bewerkt door The Stone op 25-05-2009 om 20:45 NL]
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Once you've got heat, you can do everything!
Once you've got heat, you can do everything!
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Hi Stone,The Stone schreef:
Hi Werner,
Very nice find!!!
Although I wouldn't call it directly a Mammoth.
Not familiar with African species but a short research learned its either a:
- Primelephas
- Elephas
- Mammuthus
- Palaeoloxodon
Google a bit and try to find out which species roamed the southern part of Africa.
By the way I think its a m3 in the left lower jaw.
[Bewerkt door The Stone op 25-05-2009 om 20:45 NL]
thanks for the hint.
Werner
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- notorynchus
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Hey Werner,
Maybe this is interesting ?
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/ ... y_1993.pdf
Frederik
Maybe this is interesting ?
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/ ... y_1993.pdf
Frederik