JamieLynn Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Found this little critter in my Post Oak Creek matrix. I'm guessing fish tooth? Thanks for any info! (I'm including lots of pictures because it is just odd from all angles) It's 6mm Top View Opposite End Underside Topside 3 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhysicist Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Hey! I've found one that looks exactly like this. I didn't think it was fish. It's definitely a tooth, not shark/ray. I would hazard a guess that it's reptilian... but really not sure. Hope someone else knows. 2 "Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work, since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument." - Carl Sagan "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there." - Richard Feynman Collections: Hell Creek Microsite | Hell Creek/Lance | Dinosaurs | Sharks | Squamates | Post Oak Creek | North Sulphur River | Lee Creek | Aguja | Permian | Devonian | Triassic | Harding Sandstone Instagram: @thephysicist_tff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 1 hour ago, ThePhysicist said: Hey! I've found one that looks exactly like this. I didn't think it was fish. It's definitely a tooth, not shark/ray. I would hazard a guess that it's reptilian... but really not sure. Hope someone else knows. Can you show us your specimen here, for comparative reason? Thank you. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhysicist Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Sure thing, @abyssunder: Mine is shorter and stouter, about 3 mm tall. Labial: Lingual: Basal: Occlusal: Mesial: Distal: 3 "Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work, since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument." - Carl Sagan "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there." - Richard Feynman Collections: Hell Creek Microsite | Hell Creek/Lance | Dinosaurs | Sharks | Squamates | Post Oak Creek | North Sulphur River | Lee Creek | Aguja | Permian | Devonian | Triassic | Harding Sandstone Instagram: @thephysicist_tff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted December 20, 2020 Author Share Posted December 20, 2020 Surely there's some other Post Oak Creek people here on the FF? www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhysicist Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 1 hour ago, JamieLynn said: Surely there's some other Post Oak Creek people here on the FF? Unfortunately, micros from a certain place can be sort of a niche thing. However, there are similar formations in NJ that more people would be familiar with. @Trevor @The Jersey Devil y'all have any thoughts on these? Also feel free to tag more people you think may know. 1 "Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work, since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument." - Carl Sagan "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there." - Richard Feynman Collections: Hell Creek Microsite | Hell Creek/Lance | Dinosaurs | Sharks | Squamates | Post Oak Creek | North Sulphur River | Lee Creek | Aguja | Permian | Devonian | Triassic | Harding Sandstone Instagram: @thephysicist_tff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 1 hour ago, ThePhysicist said: Unfortunately, micros from a certain place can be sort of a niche thing. However, there are similar formations in NJ that more people would be familiar with. @Trevor @The Jersey Devil y'all have any thoughts on these? Also feel free to tag more people you think may know. I am clueless as to the identity of this particular fossil. Using my mental similarity matcher alone, perhaps it could be a really small Ptychodus? 1 : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 I have some very similar worn / fragmented teeth from the late Cretaceous of North Carolina. I don't think they are reptile, I believe they are fish. I will try to find mine for comparison. 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...
BMoore Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Perhaps crocodile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted December 20, 2020 Author Share Posted December 20, 2020 42 minutes ago, BMoore said: Perhaps crocodile. That was my thought too, but I was told there were no crocodiles found in this area apparently. www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share Posted December 21, 2020 @ThePhysicist One of the members of the Dallas Paleontological Society ID'd it as a Coniasaur squamate reptile . Sure looks like it!! 5 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhysicist Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 1 hour ago, JamieLynn said: no crocodiles found in this area apparently. Yup, this was an open ocean/shallow sea. 34 minutes ago, JamieLynn said: One of the members of the Dallas Paleontological Society ID'd it as a Coniasaur squamate reptile . Sure looks like it!! Great! Looking around, it does look right. One more unknown checked off. 2 "Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work, since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument." - Carl Sagan "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there." - Richard Feynman Collections: Hell Creek Microsite | Hell Creek/Lance | Dinosaurs | Sharks | Squamates | Post Oak Creek | North Sulphur River | Lee Creek | Aguja | Permian | Devonian | Triassic | Harding Sandstone Instagram: @thephysicist_tff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share Posted December 21, 2020 @ThePhysicist Very very cool.... something pretty special! www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jersey Devil Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 7 hours ago, ThePhysicist said: Unfortunately, micros from a certain place can be sort of a niche thing. However, there are similar formations in NJ that more people would be familiar with. @Trevor @The Jersey Devil y'all have any thoughts on these? Also feel free to tag more people you think may know. I would have guessed fish. Cool tooth. I think the typical nj stuff is younger than Post oak 2 “You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.” ― Mikhail Tal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 3 hours ago, JamieLynn said: One of the members of the Dallas Paleontological Society ID'd it as a Coniasaur squamate reptile . Sure looks like it!! That somebody was Mike Everhart...and he knows squamate reptiles. 2 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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