Pterosaur

[Yoda]

Hi All 

 

Over the past few weeks, things with me on the fossil front have been a bit quiet. 
But this did arrive in the mail this week. 

 

Pterosaur from Bull Canyon, New Mexico 

Scale is in mm

 

Any ideas what Pterosaur it is 

 

 

[ziggycardon]

There is barely anything described from the Bull Canyon Formation which makes it very hard to ID teeth as we simply now very little about this location. 
While we know Pterosaurs where present at this location, I don't think any are officially described.

But I see the teeth from Bull Canyon often get called cf. Peteinosaurus or cf. Preondactylus. But both these genusses are originally found in Italy, not in North America so the Bull Canyon teeth might as well belong to a unique genus that might or might not be closely related to those. I guess we just have to wait until someone decides to do some research on this formation  

 

[Yoda]

24 minutes ago, ziggycardon said:

There is barely anything described from the Bull Canyon Formation which makes it very hard to ID teeth as we simply now very little about this location. 
While we know Pterosaurs where present at this location, I don't think any are officially described.

But I see the teeth from Bull Canyon often get called cf. Peteinosaurus or cf. Preondactylus. But both these genusses are originally found in Italy, not in North America so the Bull Canyon teeth might as well belong to a unique genus that might or might not be closely related to those. I guess we just have to wait until someone decides to do some research on this formation  

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Does the tooth look like a Pterosaur?? 

Or has it been misidentified ? 

[Bobby Rico]

Can’t say much about the ID on this. Pterosaurs teeth can be identified wrongly and are sometimes fish teeth . I am not saying it is not a Pterosaurs I don’t know, it is a nice little tooth . I tried to zoom in on your photo but can’t really get much details from the it , I know that they maybe fluted and a photo of the base of the tooth may help. Maybe @Troodon Frank can help. I hope it is ok to Repost. 

[Troodon]

So many unknowns in this fauna and similarities between teeth of different groups makes identification difficult with isolated teeth.  I would contact a paleontologist who has published in this area and get a professional opinion.

[Yoda]

14 minutes ago, Troodon said:

So many unknowns in this fauna and similarities between teeth of different groups makes identification difficult with isolated teeth.  I would contact a paleontologist who has published in this area and get a professional opinion.

Would you by any chance know who I could contact?

If so, could you pm their details ?

 

Thanks 

[Troodon]

I'm not at home, out collecting, so don't have access to my references.  Check out the paleontologists at NM museum of Natural History like Spencer Lucas

[Bobby Rico]

Just now, Troodon said:

I'm not at home, out collecting, so don't have access to my references.  Check out the paleontologists at NM museum of Natural History like Spencer Lucas

I hope you have a good one Frank. 

[Yoda]

4 minutes ago, Troodon said:

I'm not at home, out collecting, so don't have access to my references.  Check out the paleontologists at NM museum of Natural History like Spencer Lucas

Ok, thanks 

Will do

[MartynH]

Hi

 

I occasionally find Pterosaur teeth on the Isle of Wight and they are notoriously difficult to identify. This link has some info which I have found useful: http://www.pterosaur.co.uk/PDB2012/T/Teeth/Teeth07.htm

[Yoda]

I finally got to contact Spencer Lucas.

 

He thinks the tooth is from a  metoposaurid amphibian

Not what I bought it as. 

But still happy to have it in my collection.