musicnfossils Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 Hey all, I found one tooth that’s certainly from a hadrosaur a while back, and I found this other one sitting right beside it but it’s pretty funky looking. Hoping you could tell me if it’s a hadrosaur tooth as well or just a suspicious rock. (Bottom one in the pic with the measuring tape) Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 I think, but can you take some closer straight in photo looking at crown and size. Avoid oblique angled photos when you are looking for IDs. Straight in shots of all sides are the best. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadrosauridae Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Worn down trike? "There is no shortage of fossils. There is only a shortage of paleontologists to study them." - Larry Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicnfossils Posted May 22, 2020 Author Share Posted May 22, 2020 3 hours ago, Troodon said: I think, but can you take some closer straight in photo looking at crown and size. Avoid oblique angled photos when you are looking for IDs. Straight in shots of all sides are the best. I should know that by know apologies. Will post better pictures when I get home from work. 11 minutes ago, hadrosauridae said: Worn down trike? Looks pretty worn yeah, but also like it just didn’t preserve well. It also has an obsidian-like shine that the other one doesn’t have at all. If it is a tooth even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadrosauridae Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Oh wait, I was looking at the bottom of the first pic. Def need end-on pics for a better idea, but are you sure your other tooth is Hadro? Hadrosaurs had tooth batteries, and the single elements are very tall and narrow. It looks a lot more like a worn trike tooth. 1 "There is no shortage of fossils. There is only a shortage of paleontologists to study them." - Larry Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur man Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Top tooth looks like a Hadrosaur, but not sure about the second. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicnfossils Posted May 22, 2020 Author Share Posted May 22, 2020 2 hours ago, hadrosauridae said: Oh wait, I was looking at the bottom of the first pic. Def need end-on pics for a better idea, but are you sure your other tooth is Hadro? Hadrosaurs had tooth batteries, and the single elements are very tall and narrow. It looks a lot more like a worn trike tooth. Oh I’m sorry I don’t know what a trike is, unless that’s a term for ceratopsians or something. But no, I’m never TOTALLY sure of any identification I make to be honest, I just looked at photos of hadrosaur teeth from Royal Tyrrell and other sources & decided that larger one must be a broken and worn hadrosaur tooth because of the shape of the front of it. I’m fairly new to fossil collecting but I’m trying Here are some better photos of the smaller specimen, the lower one in the photo with the measuring tape. I’ll do a follow up post with photos of the other. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicnfossils Posted May 22, 2020 Author Share Posted May 22, 2020 Larger specimen: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicnfossils Posted May 22, 2020 Author Share Posted May 22, 2020 This was Royal Tyrrell’s photo of a hadrosaur tooth, to me it looked like the larger one I found is a more broken version of this. The texture on the side of the tooth as well as the front shape both seem to match. If I’m wrong I’m happy to be corrected though! e; I should probably mention, if it helps at all, that both teeth share the exact same texture, and when I found them they were so close they were nearly touching one another. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Looks like hadro teeth to me. Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinoFossilsUK Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 The larger one is 100% hadrosaur. I'm not sure if the top of the crown has just snapped off or if it's worn down through feeding wear. Where was it found? If you know the formation and it's Hell Creek/Lance Formation, it's an Edmontosaurus tooth. If it's from elsewhere I think the best you can say is hadrosaur. The smaller tooth could be a hadrosaur too, but it looks a bit beaten up and it's hard to tell from the pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Thanks for the additional pictures. Definitely hadrosaurid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadrosauridae Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 9 hours ago, musicnfossils said: Oh I’m sorry I don’t know what a trike is, unless that’s a term for ceratopsians or something. But no, I’m never TOTALLY sure of any identification I make to be honest, I just looked at photos of hadrosaur teeth from Royal Tyrrell and other sources & decided that larger one must be a broken and worn hadrosaur tooth because of the shape of the front of it. I’m fairly new to fossil collecting but I’m trying Here are some better photos of the smaller specimen, the lower one in the photo with the measuring tape. I’ll do a follow up post with photos of the other. OK I see it now, in the first pic it looked like it had a partial root angling off. I guess it was just the camera angle. I Oh, trike - triceratops 1 "There is no shortage of fossils. There is only a shortage of paleontologists to study them." - Larry Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicnfossils Posted May 22, 2020 Author Share Posted May 22, 2020 7 hours ago, DinoFossilsUK said: The larger one is 100% hadrosaur. I'm not sure if the top of the crown has just snapped off or if it's worn down through feeding wear. Where was it found? If you know the formation and it's Hell Creek/Lance Formation, it's an Edmontosaurus tooth. If it's from elsewhere I think the best you can say is hadrosaur. The smaller tooth could be a hadrosaur too, but it looks a bit beaten up and it's hard to tell from the pics. These teeth were found in southern Alberta, private land some distance from Dinosaur park. Lots of hadrosaur material comes from that formation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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