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delicate yet, undamaged hollow root

 

GIANT BEAVER MOLAR TOOTH - Undisclosed Spring - Northwest Florida, U.S.A.

PLEISTOCENE PERIOD:  1.5 million - 10,000 years ago

With the most beautiful colors from a Florida Pleistocene spring deposit along with choice detail, it would be hard to improve upon this impeccable Giant Beaver molar.  Chewing surface is complete with full cusp detail.  Longitudinal growth lines are very well illustrated.  This is a gem of a cheek tooth and it is solid.  Even the hollow and very delicate root is complete and undamaged which is truly amazing.  Add to these features, a bright pumpkin orange that only a spring deposit could offer and you have a real prize fossil from this bizarre creature!  Our HIGHEST RECOMMENDATIONS are with this top-grade specimen.  Complete with NO REPAIR and NO RESTORATION of any kind!  

During the last ice age in North America, the giant beaver, known as Castoroides ohioensis, was the largest rodent in existence.  Fossil remains of this animal have only been found in North America.  Unlike depictions of cave walls left by primitive man of other ice age creatures like Wooly Mammoths and Cave Bear, there is no evidence of what the giant beaver looked like when it was alive.  Because the skeleton is similar to that of the modern day beaver aside from its much more massive dimension, we can fairly well assume that the giant beaver looked like a present day animal, only much larger.  Skeletons of Castoroides ohioensis have been found to be the size of a black bear!  At this size, the giant beaver is estimated to have weighed well over 400 lbs, nearly EIGHT TIMES the weight of a modern beaver!

The most famous feature of these huge ice age rodents was their four prominent cutting incisors.  Unlike modern beavers, the incisors of the giant beaver were massive and deeply grooved.  Based on where fossil remains have been found, it is believed giant beavers preferred to live in lakes and ponds bordered by swamps.  

ABSOLUTE GEM TOOTH! - DELICATE ROOTS ARE COMPLETE AND INTACT!

1.2" long on the outside curve

$215     LM13-006     INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX     Actual Item - One Only

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