The series continues: twelve horse teeth from across Minnesota, each one headed for radiocarbon dating to finally pin down when these animals moved across the state’s post glacial landscape. Pictured is a potential upper Ice Age molar. Occlusal view.
Potential upper Ice Age molar. Side
Potential Ice Age horse incisor. Side view
#LostBones #FossilFriday #Equus #RadioCarbonDating 🐴 In June 1921, crews at the Sagamore Mine near Riverton, Minnesota uncovered a peat layer eight feet down containing a Pleistocene bone bed with a horse molar (#6), a horse incisor, and other late‑Quaternary fossils.
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