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From the album: Gainesville Florida Microscopic Miocene
This is a tooth from the Stingray Dasyatis. It is found on a male stingray during mating season as the swept back design is more efficient than the normal tooth for clasping the female ray during mating. -
From the album: Gainesville Florida Microscopic Miocene
These are fragments of stingray tail spines, usually assigned to the genus Dasyatis. -
From the album: Gainesville Florida Microscopic Miocene
Stingray teeth that are most commonly assigned to the genus Dasyatis. -
Hello! I found tooth of male Dasyatis with some "bulging" on the lover parts of cusp (in lingual part of tooth). I didnt found before teeth of this genus with such "bulging" - is it some species feature or just some phatology? As far as I know from the research territory are known few species of Dasyatis: delfortriei, probsti, rugosa and strangulata... Middle Miocene. Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!
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No, not named for the famous dive/snorkel spot in Grand Cayman where tourists can interact (usually quite safely) with swarms of Southern Stingrays but instead referring to the abundance of Dasyatis sp. teeth from the Montbrook fossil site in north-central Florida. While this site is a treasure trove of fossil material providing huge numbers of specimens of turtles as well as other creatures like alligators, gomphotheres, tapirs, peccaries, llamas, and ever an early saber-toothed cat, many taxa on the faunal list are only known from micro-fossils. In addition to valuable and scarce fossil rema
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From the album: Pisces
3mm. Whiptail stingray tooth from Cookie Cutter Matrix Sarasota County, Florida, USA Miocene/Pleistocene
