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Had two weeks off from school, so I thought I would poke around a bit at a few of the spots I frequent. It was way too hot to stay for any length of time but I did come away with a few good 'bits and bob's' (sorry, been watching a lot of videos of folk from the UK fossilin'.) Firstly, at the Pennington Formation I found what i believed at the time to be a beat up Petalodus tooth. I set it aside when i got home and didnt touch it until returning from my second trip. i thought maybe I could clean it up a bit, but soon noticed it had striations going from the root up. petalodus doesn't have those so i decided to have a go at it () with my airscribe. This is basically what it looked like, with matrix covering the top portion. With a little scribing I uncovered a blunt cusplet which is when I started getting excited! After many hours of scribe work here is what Ive uncovered: A very large Cladodus-type tooth! The biggest Ive found intact! Its only missing a couple of cusplets. I had to stabilize it with super glue as the root was full of cracks. i'll take better pics this weekend. Needless to say I was chuffed! I'll post the results (and the heart-break) from the trips I took over vacation this weekend so stay tuned!
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