LARGE CHOICE GRADE COLORFUL GIANT BEAVER FOSSIL MOLAR TOOTH *LMX194

Product Description

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 real prize fossil from this bizarre creature!  NO REPAIR and NO FABRICATION.

HISTORY

Castoroides leiseyorum, or Giant Beaver, is an extinct species of enormous beavers that lived in North America during the Pleistocene. C. leiseyorum was the largest beaver to ever exist.  Prehistoric giant beavers were much larger than modern beavers. Their average length was approximately 1.9 m (6.2 ft), and they could grow as large as 2.2 m (7.2 ft). The weight of the giant beaver could vary from 90 kg (198 lb) to 125 kg (276 lb). This makes it the largest known rodent in North America during the Pleistocene and the largest known beaver.

Prehistoric giant beavers were much larger than modern beavers.  Their average length was approximately 1.9 m (6.2 ft), and they could grow as large as 2.2 m (7.2 ft).  The weight of the giant beaver could vary from 90 kg (198 lb) to 125 kg (276 lb).  This makes it the largest known rodent in North America during the Pleistocene and the largest known beaver to have ever lived.

One of the defining characteristics of the giant beaver was their incisors, which differ in size and shape from those of modern beavers. Modern beavers have incisor teeth with smooth enamel, while the teeth of the giant beaver were much larger up to 15 cm (6 in) long, with a striated, textured enamel surface.

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