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Alligator or crocidle tooth?


Chris Anderson

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Me and my wifewere walking North Myrtle Beach today and found this with a bunch of sharks teeth and other fossils. It looks like either a alligator or crocidle tooth to me. I can't seem to get a good inside picture of it where it is broken. There is no shiny black enamel on it. Can anyone please help identify it?

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Brightened and cropped

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Sorry, but this doesn't look like a tooth to me - it not only lacks the enamel, but also has a different texture then dentine - though it is probably still bone. However, to me it seems a rather nondescript piece, so I'm not sure if you're going to get much information out of it...

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The official ID: speckosaurus/fragmentadon/chiplodocus/chunkosaur :BigSmile:

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"Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;

Wrecked is the ship of pearl!

And every chambered cell,

Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell" :ammonite01:

-From The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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8 minutes ago, Praefectus said:

I am also not so sure this is a tooth. It is missing enamel and the general shape is off. 

agree 100%

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 I think  it is a Dugong rib fragment.  Very common in the peace river Florida.  Shiny  Very very dense bone without any trabecular bone that are brittle and can break into pointy fragments.  The first pieces that I found made me very excited I thought it must be tusk. (not)

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You already have your answer but I am chipping in a little. Croc teeth have a hollowed out cross section like this

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Looking forward to meeting my fellow Singaporean collectors! Do PM me if you are a Singaporean, or an overseas fossil-collector coming here for a holiday!

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