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Odd Tooth? Post Oak Creek Texas Cretaceous


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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 

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Top View

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Opposite End

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Underside

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Topside

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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. :popcorn:

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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. :popcorn:

Can you show us your specimen here, for comparative reason?

Thank you.

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Sure thing, @abyssunder:

 

Mine is shorter and stouter, about 3 mm tall.

 

Labial:

 

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Lingual:

 

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Basal:

 

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Occlusal:

 

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Mesial:

 

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Distal:

 

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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. 

 

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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

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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.  ;)

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