Is this a very small Pennsylvanian Tooth? From Missouri

[Samurai]

Location is in Missouri

The area is dated to the Pennsylvanian 

Formation: Muncie Creek Shale

 

 

Found this very small tooth like structure and was wondering if anyone could confirm if it is a tooth or not. Normally I can identify teeth if they are large enough, but this specimen is very small.

 

I have found teeth before in these concretions but much larger such as a possible Symmorium or Glikmanius along with a tooth from a member of Eugeneodontida. 

 

 

 

 

Here are some images I edited that might make some details more clearer:

 

 

 

[BobWill]

Interesting find. I don't recognize it at all but I hope someone does. Maybe if you can expose more of it or get a closer image with more detail it would help.

[Rockwood]

I can see it being scraps of fish bones. Perhaps a tooth. Some more magnification would help. It is really small.

[Samurai]

On 8/3/2020 at 1:21 AM, Rockwood said:

I can see it being scraps of fish bones. Perhaps a tooth. Some more magnification would help. It is really small.

I'm fashionably late as ever, but looking through my old posts and finally obtaining a way to put fossils under a microscope I have been able to take several photos of this specimen. However i'm still at a loss at what fragment this could be in this phosphatic nodule. Recently I have found a confirmed tooth of similar size (although completely different shape) that appears to be made of the same material that I can post here if that is deemed relevant. 

  

 

Photo with the coprolitic material in the background:

due to being at an odd angle It was difficult to get a photo of this specimen being entirely clear. 

 

 

Edited September 9, 2022 by Samurai

[Rockwood]

The texture doesn't seem right to be tooth or bone now. I suppose it could have been altered somehow though. 

[Samurai]

2 hours ago, Rockwood said:

The texture doesn't seem right to be tooth or bone now. I suppose it could have been altered somehow though. 

Yeah I didn't have really high hopes of it being a tooth, but it truly is a mystery. Especially how so far a lot of microfossils seem to be "coated" and replaced with this white mineral. I guess in this case time will tell what these microfossils will look like as I eventually will open more nodules and notice more of them. 

 

btw here is the tooth I referenced originally, I'm still awaiting my professors response on weather conodont or cladodont as he works with microfossils like radiolarians, condonts, and foraminifera. Maybe I should ask him what he thinks on the "arrow head" shaped mystery posted above. 

 

 

I wont on this specimen, but i'm thinking to see if this material fizzes in acid out of my own curiosity. 

Edited September 10, 2022 by Samurai

[Rockwood]

Conodont is what came to my mind. I know very little about them though.