They find a mammoth tooth after the gale of the Iker hurricane
The gales and swells of the hurricane Ike , that devastated the coast of Texas three weeks ago, in the open left the fossil tooth of mammoth that weighs almost three kilograms and has about 10,000 years of antiquity, according to a paleontologist of the Lamar University.
The academic institution, with soothes in Beaumont (Texas), informóen its page of Internet that the finding happened when professor Doroty Sisk returned to the coastal locality of Caplen, knowing that it would find little of which had been its house.
While Sisk drew for to rubbish and scattered properties, his colleague the paleontologist Jim Westgate, had accompanied that it, saw numerous rubbish pieces and other materials in which it had been the garden of the house.
And among them, Westgate, investigator in the Laboratory of Paleontology of Vertebrates in the Memorial Museum of the University of Texas, he recognized a fossilized tooth of mammoth.
It is first that I have found in 19 years , Westgate said. People bring pieces to me and fragments that find in the beach so that identify I them and never had seen one in so good condition .
The tooth that weighs 2.74 kilograms resembles a battery of soles or slices of bread, and according to the paleontologist, probably it corresponds to the Mammuthus Columbi, a species that was common in North America does about 10,000 years.
In agreement with the scientists the ancestors of the modern elephant abounded in the Americas. The fossilized teeth of the Columbi are distinguished easily by their surface of milling, added the scientist.
The mastodon teeth have protuberances and seem a series of steep mountains and deep valleys, whereas the teeth of mamuts flatter and more are adapted for the milling.
One thinks that the diet of the mastodon consisted of leaves, crust and fruits, whereas mamuts ate mainly I graze.
Like the modern elephants, mamuts produced a total of six games of teeth during their life, and each new tooth pushed the old man until removing it, according to Westgate.
The tooth shortage between the rubbish of the house of Sisak does not show wearing down, so that the paleontologist deduces that he was new or it was on the verge of leaving encía when the animal died.
The investigator affirmed that the fossil finding is quite common in this area when there are storms .
The McFaddin beach is popular between the collectors , explained. After a storm, when North wind has blown, that pushes waters far from the coast, the finders are going to the beach to see if they find fossils .
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