H023 - PERFECT COMPLETE FOSSIL MAXILLARY DENTITION OF AN ICE AGE PLEISTOCENE NORTH AMERICAN HORSE

Product Description

ITEM # 

H023

ID

Equus

FOUND

Spring Deposit - Central Florida, U.S.A.

AGE

PLEISTOCENE:  200,000 - 20,000 years ago

SIZE

Each molar varies from 3.4" to 2.8" in length 
with complete hollow root

CONDITION

100% INTACT 'AS FOUND', WITH NO
REPAIR OR ENHANCEMENT - STABILIZED

NOTE

THE ABSOLUTE FINEST REFERENCE HORSE
FOSSIL TOOTH SET YOU COULD HOPE FOR 
TO HELP IDENTIFY ISOLATED TEETH OR LEARN 
ICE AGE HORSE DENTITION.

INCLUDES DISPLAY BOX - Actual Item - One Only

Comes with a certificate of authenticity / information sheet

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Despite their prevalence in prehistory, generally speaking, horse fossils are rare due to the fragile nature of their skeletons.  The most common finds are isolated, individual teeth.  The dredges working on rivers and gravel mines in Europe find the most horse fossils but even then, more than damaged, isolated fragments are rare.  From North America, horse fossils are VERY RARE.  In Florida, we have one of the richest deposits (much of the studies done on prehistoric horses were done with Florida material!).  Nevertheless, again, the most common horse fossils found in Florida are isolated teeth but to a much lesser degree than Europe.  

We preface this listing with the above explanation to emphasize just how  INCREDIBLY RARE this listing is.  Offered here is a COMPLETE right side maxillary dentition of a North American Pleistocene horse, Equus sp..  Even the discovery of a SINGLE fossil horse tooth in this condition would be an incredible discovery but to find the ENTIRE array of teeth in preservation so perfect, as if alive yesterday, then that is something you never forget as a fossil hunter.  

The set above is original and all from one horse, found associated together in a Pleistocene spring deposit.  There is not a single nick or break to any part of any of the teeth.  The teeth do not even have any damage from when the horse was alive, tens of thousands of years ago.  If you had a scientific supply company and were offering casts of fossil teeth for research and education, this would be THE #1 candidate specimen set to use as the model.   THEY ARE 100% P-E-R-F-E-C-T!  This really is a once-in-a-lifetime offering.   Even if you took a fossil jaw with all its teeth and broke them all out of the jaw, the crowns would not be so perfect as these specimens.  The reason for its perfect condition is the lack of any environmental disturbance to damage the fossils as they lay buried.  Unlike a gravel deposit that jostles and hammers the teeth, tumbling for millennia in rock, these teeth remained still since the prehistoric horse died and were first buried.  100% AUTHENTIC AS FOUND WITH NO FABRICATION OR COMPOSITING OF TEETH.