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Could anyone who knows about mammal teeth please give Susan's images a look-over on the Flickr site, and suggest an ID for her at her e-mail below, plus maybe comment on the fossil idea? She lives in Pennsylvania but photo'd them on holiday in PEI recently. Sounds like my guessed ID from their littoral location was wrong, but that's no surprise to me. Steve (Hfx) ________________________________________ From: Susan Koomar [koomarsusan@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 9:47 AM To: Stephen Shaw Subject: Re: FW: Marine biology - animal teeth ID inquiry Hi Stephen, Thank you so much for offer to share my inquiry via NatureNS. I have uploaded the photos to Flickr but this is my first time using that service so if I need to change any settings to permit access, please let me know. Here is a link to the album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/136249939@N08/albums/72157658709833326 I have received a few replies from biologists but the opinions vary - sounds like the teeth could be from a moose, horse or cow. I am especially curious to obtain additional insight on the two specimens since they really seem to be fossilized roots with just partial teeth remaining. The specimens were found on the beach at Souris on the east side of Prince Edward Island on Sept. 10. Thank you again - very much - for your time and assistance! Best wishes, Susan On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Stephen Shaw <srshaw@dal.ca<mailto:srshaw@dal.ca>> wrote: Hi Susan, I do insects and am not a mammal expert at all, but the teeth are large and for what it's worth (not much) my amateur best guess is one of the seals. The point of this note is that if you get no traction from anyone at Dalhousie, I can put round the request on the listserve NatureNS to which I subscribe, where you might get better advice -- Randy Lauff at StFX University here specializes in things like this, and several others on this network of 200+ people are knowledgeable in such things. Postings to NatureNS unfortunately don't allow attachments, so the usual way to deal with that is to upload the images to one of the free image-storing photo sites like Flickr so others can then easily log in to view them. Alternatively, I could put your note round with your e-mail address and you'd then offer to send images privately to anyone who replies -- a bit more cumbersome. Hope you get some replies from here, though, which would be simpler for you. Steve Shaw ________________________________________ From: Biology Research Associates [BIOLOGY-RAS@KIL-LSV-1.UCIS.DAL.CA<mailto:BIOLOGY-RAS@KIL-LSV-1.UCIS.DAL.CA>] on behalf of Carolyn Young [Carolyn.Young@DAL.CA<mailto:Carolyn.Young@DAL.CA>] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 10:10 AM To: BIOLOGY-RAS@KIL-LSV-1.UCIS.DAL.CA<mailto:BIOLOGY-RAS@KIL-LSV-1.UCIS.DAL.CA> Subject: FW: Marine biology - animal teeth ID inquiry From: Susan Koomar [mailto:koomarsusan@gmail.com<mailto:koomarsusan@gmail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 2:34 PM To: Biology Inquiries Email <biology@dal.ca<mailto:biology@dal.ca>> Subject: Marine biology - animal teeth ID inquiry Hello, I was recently on holiday on PEI and found two fragments of teeth while I was collecting sea glass on the beach at Souris. I am very curious to find out what animal these teeth came from and am hoping someone at your University might be able to help with identification. Attached are some photos (I can provide additional photos if that would be helpful). Please let me know if you can assist or if there is another resource you would recommend that I contact regarding this inquiry. Sincere thanks for any help you can provide! Susan Koomar Catasauqua, Pennsylvania USA
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