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Not sure what these Crushing tooth plates belong to (Solved: Fragments from Metacoceras Sp.)


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Location: Missouri

Timer period: Paleozoic (Might be Pennsylvanian)

Formation: N/A

 

Hello! My friend recently gifted to me a few fossils and he brought to me an interesting tooth/crushing plate and asked if I was familiar with it, and unfortunately I was not!

 

He mentioned what he thought it could belong to, but I am unable to recall what species.

 

Some information I was told was that his mother actually found his specimen at a location a few years ago and I was unable to get a picture of the location or check it out due to a busy schedule! 

 

My friend's specimen (he took home):

 

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Around 5-6 cm

 

 

The one he gifted me:

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Roughly 2.5cm long ( The plate fossil itself)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images in their natural size (not compressed):

https://imgur.com/a/ZWA47Mf

 

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4 minutes ago, FossilDAWG said:

I don't think these are teeth.  They look more like fragments of a coiled nautilod or ammonoid.

 

Don

Very well could be! Would you by chance know what species they would be derived from? Or is it not recognizable 

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Metacoceras ?? 

 

 

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8 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

Metacoceras ?? 

 

 

I think you are 100% correct from what I can tell and all the information makes sense

 

 

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