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I found this tooth recently at Pett Level in Hastings. I've found loads of teeth including some rare ones.. but nothing like this ..at first I thought maybe ankylosaur or something similar... What's your thoughts ? I've added pictures next to an ankylosaur tooth
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First armoured dinosaur discovered on Isle of Wight ‘in 142 years’ Nilima Marshall, Independent, June 15, 2023 The paper describing Vectipelta barretti can be found at this link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14772019.2023.2210577?journalCode=tjsp20 (unfortunately, not open-access)
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Identification Teeth of Nodosaurids are often confused for those of their rarer relatives, the Ankylosaurids, namely the archetypical Ankylosaurian, Ankylosaurus. (Most) teeth of Ankylosaurus are taller than they are wide, are generally conical in shape with one side flatter than the other, have large denticles on the anterior and posterior edges (6-8 anterior, 5-7 posterior), and have swollen/bulbous bases. Tooth wear is normally on the crown face, compared to wear on the tip (apex) as in Nodosaurids.1,2 Comments This tooth is partially rooted; the root is cylindrical and hollow. There is a wear facet on one side, offset from the center, with grooves roughly perpendicular to the apicobasal axis (suggestive of the mastication motion). This tooth was found in the same county as the holotype of this species. References 1. Carpenter, K. "Redescription of Ankylosaurus magniventris Brown 1908 (Ankylosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Western Interior of North America." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (2004), 41(8): 961-986. https://doi.org/10.1139/e04-043 2. Carpenter, K. "Baby dinosaurs from the Lance and Hell Creek formations and a description of a new theropod." Contributions to Geology (1982), 20: 123–134.
