Mastodon Tooth
Mammut americanum
A heavy, cone-cusped grinding tooth from an Ice Age browser, one of Florida's headline fossil finds.
- Typical size
- 3–8 in
- How often it turns up
- Rare
- Collecting
- Archaeological, leave in place
- Handling
- Safe to handle
Vertebrate fossils collected from state-owned land or submerged bottoms in Florida require a fossil permit from the Florida Museum of Natural History. Beach-washed finds above the waterline are generally fine, but know your site.
How to tell it apart
- Rows of blunt conical cusps
- Very heavy, dark brown to black enamel
- Often river-worn and rounded
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