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FS210 Jaguar Upper Premolar

4.0 cm. Long x 3.0 cm. Wide x 1.0 cm. High

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Classification: Metazoa, Chordata, Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae, Panthera, sp.

Description: An upper carnasial of a jaguar; that makes this a P4 - the 4th upper premolar. The small bump near along the enamel seen in two of the photos appears to be the remainder of a broken protocone, a small cusp. A third fang (root) supports the protocone in a complete P4.

Age: Pleistocene Epoch

Location Found: United States, Florida, Peace River, FL

Found by: hamsmth4

Custodian: hamsmth4

Identified by: hemipristis

References: The Fossil Vertebrates of Florida, pp. 216-220.