Description: Fantastic prehistoric beaver incisor tooth fossil. This fossil was found in North Florida and is from the Pleistocene Epoch. This cool tooth is just under 1" long. The fossil comes in a unique display case and includes a laminated information card. All fossils sold are authentic. No replicas. Beavers (genus Castor) are large, semiaquatic rodents of the Northern Hemisphere. Beavers are the second-largest living rodents, after capybaras, weighing up to 110 lb. They have stout bodies with large heads, long chisel-like incisors, brown or gray fur, hand-like front feet, webbed back feet, and tails that are flat and scaly. Beavers can be found in a number of freshwater habitats, such as rivers, streams, lakes and ponds. They are herbivorous, consuming tree bark, aquatic plants, grasses and sedges.Beavers build dams and lodges using tree branches, vegetation, rocks and mud; they chew down trees for building material. Dams restrict water flow, and lodges serve as shelters.Modern beavers are the only extant members of the family Castoridae. They originated in North America in the late Eocene and colonized Eurasia via the Bering Land Bridge in the early Oligocene, coinciding with the Grande Coupure, a time of significant changes in animal species around 33 million years ago.In the early Miocene, castorids evolved a semiaquatic lifestyle. Researchers suggest that modern beavers and Castoroidinae shared a bark-eating common ancestor. Dam and lodge-building likely developed from bark-eating, and allowed beavers to survive in the harsh winters of the subarctic. ML016
Price: 11.99 USD
Location: Davenport, Iowa
End Time: 2024-09-07T00:45:27.000Z
Shipping Cost: 4.99 USD
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