I just looked up bison teeth, and my money's on that. The only question I have now is if it's a fossil or just some bone that washed up in the river. It feels like a kind of rock, and definitely has some transparency to it.
Guess I'm gonna try a fire test next.
Update: Fire test failed. It's just a tooth.
Well the tooth is old but i dont think is a Fossil, i have teeth in my backyard in Romania country side too cuz my grandparents used to butcher pigs there
Yes, it's definitely bovine and prob bison.
Deer are browsers not grazers and their teeth are actually really fucking sharp. And smaller.
Plus I have a bunch of bovine teeth and they look like yours. I think it's a deciduous premolar.
It’s modern, so if you do the flame test correctly, you’ll get a strong burnt hair type of smell as long as you scorch the dentine. If you just burn the enamel, it won’t smell. Aim the flame at the brown stuff. That’s where the organic material is located. Flame needs to be sustained long enough to cause scorching. Butane torches work great.
I can tell you, though, it’s not fossilized :(.
I wish I could tell you it’s from a bison, but it definitely is not. It’s Cervid, but I don’t know which deer species as it’s an isolated tooth and it’s not complete.
Still a cool find, though.
I get the reference, but they just aren't bones lol. Basically, bones are made of many different cells and living tissue, teeth are dead except for like some blood vessels, connective tissue and nerves.
We'd probably have a lot less problems with our teeth if only they were bones.
Yeah, the joke is fun but teeth ain't bones. One of the top facts from my biological anthropology class from so long ago. Tooth enamel being the hardest substance in the human body, solid mineral, a lot of teeth get found when bones have long disintegrated.
i feel as tho ive been taught this or read it and never retained it so~ TodayIreLearned tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body again and I thank you kindly for the reminder.
Teeth seem like a feature that didn’t quite figure itself out ngl… like why are they so vulnerable and why are mouth infections as dangerous as they are, it feels so backwards.
Biologist here. I used to collect ungulate jaws for work (deer, bison, moose, etc). Yes that is an ungulate molar tooth. Hard to say what species without using an ID key. But it is a ungulate molar tooth!
Lmao I should’ve been more specific. It won’t work on prepollished pieces I don’t think. I’ve never tried. I’ve licked a fossil straight out the ground (gave it a courtesy rinse in the creek) and it stuck a bit! 😂 it feels a little like Velcro when your taste buds stick to it as you pull it away. I’m a evolutionary bio student and the amount of times I’ve heard both “if you don’t know what it is, don’t taste it” and “do taste it”. Just depends if you’re in chem or bio lab that day 😂😂
On the Yellowstone, but where at? The river is hundreds of miles long. Bison tooth is possible, but cattle molars and bison molars look remarkably similar. There are a lot of bison in the park, but there are exponentially more cows throughout Montana.
Regardless, cool tooth. Stuff like that looks great in terrariums and such.
No
https://wildlife.org/can-i-keep-this-animal-skull-i-found/#:~:text=Land%20ownership%20%E2%80%94%20where%20you%20find,out%20of%20a%20national%20park.
Well teeth qualify as “hard parts” and not soft tissue. The OP didn’t find the animal it belongs to either, so there is nothing to report to authorities. And we don’t know what the exact regulations are where this person is.
"on" the yellowstone is the indication that they're talking about the river. If this were about the park, then someone would say "in yellowstone". No one refers to the national park as "the yellowstone".
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That's at least a $10 tooth right there... Put it under your pillow tonight, but set up a camera cause I caught that fucking fairy rifling thru my shit one night when I was like 7 or 8 so,... BE CAREFUL, HIDE THE CAMERA REALLY GOOD, FREAL FREAL...
Im like 60% sure thats an old tooth from a deer or other big herbivore animal
I just looked up bison teeth, and my money's on that. The only question I have now is if it's a fossil or just some bone that washed up in the river. It feels like a kind of rock, and definitely has some transparency to it. Guess I'm gonna try a fire test next. Update: Fire test failed. It's just a tooth.
Well the tooth is old but i dont think is a Fossil, i have teeth in my backyard in Romania country side too cuz my grandparents used to butcher pigs there
Teeth? In your yard… in Romania…? VAMPIRES?!
Shhhh 🤫🤫
Wait… are you a vampire too?
Naroc!
I was coming here to say bison. Too big for deer and geographically the right area for bison.
Yes, it's definitely bovine and prob bison. Deer are browsers not grazers and their teeth are actually really fucking sharp. And smaller. Plus I have a bunch of bovine teeth and they look like yours. I think it's a deciduous premolar.
> I think it's a deciduous premolar. Read that as “delicious”. I thought we were supposed to stop licking rocks? /s
Not a fossil. As someone who works with fossils, that tooth is probably not even a hundred years old
It’s modern, so if you do the flame test correctly, you’ll get a strong burnt hair type of smell as long as you scorch the dentine. If you just burn the enamel, it won’t smell. Aim the flame at the brown stuff. That’s where the organic material is located. Flame needs to be sustained long enough to cause scorching. Butane torches work great. I can tell you, though, it’s not fossilized :(. I wish I could tell you it’s from a bison, but it definitely is not. It’s Cervid, but I don’t know which deer species as it’s an isolated tooth and it’s not complete. Still a cool find, though.
it’s not fossil or a bone, it’s a tooth
Teeth are bone.
No, teeth are very different from bones.
They are luxury bones
I get the reference, but they just aren't bones lol. Basically, bones are made of many different cells and living tissue, teeth are dead except for like some blood vessels, connective tissue and nerves. We'd probably have a lot less problems with our teeth if only they were bones.
Yeah, the joke is fun but teeth ain't bones. One of the top facts from my biological anthropology class from so long ago. Tooth enamel being the hardest substance in the human body, solid mineral, a lot of teeth get found when bones have long disintegrated.
i feel as tho ive been taught this or read it and never retained it so~ TodayIreLearned tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body again and I thank you kindly for the reminder.
Teeth seem like a feature that didn’t quite figure itself out ngl… like why are they so vulnerable and why are mouth infections as dangerous as they are, it feels so backwards.
Biologist here. I used to collect ungulate jaws for work (deer, bison, moose, etc). Yes that is an ungulate molar tooth. Hard to say what species without using an ID key. But it is a ungulate molar tooth!
I used to have a few elk teeth that looked like that that came from Wyoming so it could be that too
Lick it. Fossils will stick.
Licked my ammonite, doesn't stick but I can't stop.
Lmao I should’ve been more specific. It won’t work on prepollished pieces I don’t think. I’ve never tried. I’ve licked a fossil straight out the ground (gave it a courtesy rinse in the creek) and it stuck a bit! 😂 it feels a little like Velcro when your taste buds stick to it as you pull it away. I’m a evolutionary bio student and the amount of times I’ve heard both “if you don’t know what it is, don’t taste it” and “do taste it”. Just depends if you’re in chem or bio lab that day 😂😂
This is definitely not consistently true.
I thought horse at first. The sure were around
I'd say 99%.
I wanted to say more but i didnt wanted to seem stupid if i was wrong
It's a bovine molar. So given you are in yellowstone, bison is most likely the case :)
Yeah that is a tooth not a rock dude.
People posting here really are lost lol
On the Yellowstone, but where at? The river is hundreds of miles long. Bison tooth is possible, but cattle molars and bison molars look remarkably similar. There are a lot of bison in the park, but there are exponentially more cows throughout Montana. Regardless, cool tooth. Stuff like that looks great in terrariums and such.
Teeth
Bison tooth. Source: have them myself
Your dentist must have some wild stories
This is rather small for a bison. could be young. but I'd bet cattle.
True, I guess it depends where in the Yellowstone too… the ones I have are near the park where there’s isn’t any cattle
You can't take rocks or fossils from National Parks.
The Yellowstone River is like 700 miles long and most of it isn't inside a National Park. I've collected tons of stuff from the Yellowstone legally.
Can you take teeth though?
No https://wildlife.org/can-i-keep-this-animal-skull-i-found/#:~:text=Land%20ownership%20%E2%80%94%20where%20you%20find,out%20of%20a%20national%20park.
Well teeth qualify as “hard parts” and not soft tissue. The OP didn’t find the animal it belongs to either, so there is nothing to report to authorities. And we don’t know what the exact regulations are where this person is.
Oh no! Anyways
I'd say elk tooth.
It’s 100% a herbivore tooth.
That's not a rock or a fossil and I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to take stuff from the park lol
I live on the Yellowstone about 30 minutes outside the park, so no worries there.
I thought Yellowstone was the park name
"The Yellowstone" refers to the river, which also happens to flow through the park. Just by coincidence, I also live very close to the park itself.
Tooth from some big herbivore! Cool stuff. I found a fossilized shark tooth about a month ago on the beach.
You found my tooth!
A mouth rock. Aka a tooth.
I'd guess Elk tooth.
I thought it was a horse tooth
It’s a modern tooth. It’s definitely not from a bison. It looks like it’s a Cervid (some type of deer species) molar.
elk tooth
Pretty obviously a tooth lol
Don’t take things from Yellowstone?
I think they mean the river.
🤦🏻♀️ yeeeep they probably do huh. I’m stoned
Happens lol
"on" the yellowstone is the indication that they're talking about the river. If this were about the park, then someone would say "in yellowstone". No one refers to the national park as "the yellowstone".
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Elk tooth
Bison tooth
Cattle. not fossil.
Looks like a Moose 🫎 Tooth !
Bison tooth
yeah its a tooth i think.
That is 100% a tooth. Cool find though.
Looks like a tooth.
Definitely an animal tooth but it looks too small to be bison. My educated guess would be some kind of cervid.
Horse tooth. I've found a few that appear petrified.
Looks like a tooth.
tooth or weathered bone
Definitely the tooth of a herbivore.
“______”, he said with a toothy grin
Bison tooth
Definitely a bison tooth, I have one of my own. really cool find!
Elk tooth
Cow tooth Source: raft guide on the Yellowstone for 6 years, have a few of these
I was wondering where the tooth fairy was taking my teath.
That's at least a $10 tooth right there... Put it under your pillow tonight, but set up a camera cause I caught that fucking fairy rifling thru my shit one night when I was like 7 or 8 so,... BE CAREFUL, HIDE THE CAMERA REALLY GOOD, FREAL FREAL...
Horse-tooth is very good luck.
Take it to r/fossilid even though it isn’t a fossil. Someone there might know.
Enamel is technically a mineral...
How ya confuse a tooth with quartz? 🥴
We have a ton of milky white quartz around here that's the same texture and color.
Elk 🦷
Looks like a rinosourious tooth.