Hey all! Still working on the Cabezon fauna, which looks to be never ending! I have, so far, over 16,000 fossils
(mostly selachian teeth) recovered from ant hills. I just went out yesterday and got another 100 pounds of ant
hill to go through. Although most of the teeth are scapanorhynchus and cretolamna, there are several other
species represented, including some very small orectolobids. I also run across a few that I have not seen in the
literature or in other museum collections, so I am going to post a few this week to pick your brains. The first one
could be a symphysial of something, but the labial face is different than anything I have seen. The cusp is almost in
bas relief to the root. This is not a result of weathering, as the enamel of the cusp turns inward at the base before
it reaches the root.On the lingual face, the root is more pronounced (in the picture of the labial face, you can see the
root reach up to half the crown size). Any ideas? And this is just the first of a few I will post. I have three photos,
so there will be three posts of them.
Thanks!
Randy