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I recently found two pliosaur teeth were on sale on online auction site. One was listed as “Simolestes sp.”, and another was identified as “Liopleurodon sp.”. What’s your thoughts? Are they real Jurassic pliosaur teeth, or they belong to something else?
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Hello! Curious if this could be a teeth from pliosaur Simolestes Vorax Teeth does exhibit signs on crushing and measures approximately 30mm, has signs of striations common with pliosaur teeth Additional Details Jurassic, Oxford Clay Peterborough Cambridgeshire UK Attached pictures
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Over the past few days I've been drawing up another paleo-reconstruction. After some time conflicting on which animal to draw, I settled on the rather under-celebrated pliosaur Simolestes vorax. S. vorax is a Jurassic pliosaur related to Liopleurodon, but is estimated to grow up to 10 meters in length, rivaling the size of the more famous pliosaur Kronosaurus. Heck, at one point there were even some theories that Simolestes was the owner of a gigantic lower front jaw dubbed "The NHM Symphysis", which was believed to be from a pliosaur exceeding 15 meters in length! Again, I used a Huion
