sixgill pete Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 I need some help with some I.D.'s. These were both found in some matrix I collected recently in Craven County N.C. The exposure is Eocene Castle Hayne Formation, ?Comfort member. The site produces a few shark and fish teeth, crab claws, echinoids and starfish ossicles. It is a limestone / bryozoan hash. It is possible of course that this stuff is recent or even possibly Pleistocene as I have found pieces of mastodon teeth very close by. First is a small mammal tooth, 4mm long by 2.2 mm wide. Next is a small jaw piece with teeth. I first thought fish, then was thinking lizard. But I really have no idea. The entire section is 10.6 mm long. the teeth are very very small. 2 Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Don, is it possible the second one is a set of pharyngeal fish teeth? The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 I'm thinking maybe anole, but I'm not certain. I know I've seen specimens very much like that in the posts @MarcoSr and @old bones have made on material from the Melbourne bone bed (AKA frog toe matrix). Don 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 4 hours ago, FossilDAWG said: I'm thinking maybe anole, but I'm not certain. I know I've seen specimens very much like that in the posts @MarcoSr and @old bones have made on material from the Melbourne bone bed (AKA frog toe matrix). Don Hi Don, Yeah, that jaw looks like a lizard and the teeth are like an anole especially if you've ever seen the specimens ID'ed as anole from the Brooksville, FL site. The mammal tooth looks like a rodent - probably a modern one. The funny thing about rodents is that they are rather uncommon fossils from the Middle Eocene. Jess 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 7 hours ago, FossilDAWG said: I'm thinking maybe anole, but I'm not certain. I know I've seen specimens very much like that in the posts @MarcoSr and @old bones have made on material from the Melbourne bone bed (AKA frog toe matrix). Don Don The jaw looks like a lizard jaw. Amphibian jaws can look similar but the teeth in this jaw look like lizard teeth. The tooth looks like a rodent tooth. Marco Sr. 2 "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 This view shows the tricuspid teeth that are common in lizards in the suborder Iguania which includes anoles. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted August 7, 2020 Author Share Posted August 7, 2020 Thanks everyone. @Al Dente do you think it may be a recent or fossil Anolis carolinensis possibly. The way there is limestone matrix stuck in the jaw around the teeth makes me think fossil. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 My guess would be recent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 7 hours ago, Al Dente said: My guess would be recent. Hi Al Dente, Right. Limestone has probably dissolved and left a film/precipitate on modern stuff making it look like it came out of the formation. Jess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 19 hours ago, FossilDAWG said: I'm thinking maybe anole, but I'm not certain. I know I've seen specimens very much like that in the posts @MarcoSr and @old bones have made on material from the Melbourne bone bed (AKA frog toe matrix). Don Yes, Anole is what I would say as well. I'm glad that the modern or not question was answered by folks more knowledgable than me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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