Pterosaur tooth with root

[Per Christian]

Hello all,

 

Here is a rooted pterosaur tooth from the kemkem. It's 6.5 cm long and is from the Kemkem. Does anyone know if an exact species can be determined for this tooth?

[Praefectus]

Cool tooth! There were multiple toothed pterosaurs in the Kem Kem and I'm not sure if it is possible to tell them apart based on isolated teeth alone. I usually refer to these teeth as ornithocheirid indet. Perhaps your tooth may be able to have a more specific ID because the root is present. 

[Troodon]

 

There are multiple Azhdarchidae type pterosaurs in the Kem Kem Group so its difficult to assign it to one .  Siroccopteryx moroccensis, a coloborhynchine, was the first toothed pterosaur described.   Recently, Jacobs et al. (2019) named a second coloborhynchine, Coloborhynchus fluviferox, and reported jaw fragments attributable to Anhanguera sp. and Ornithocheirus sp. (Jacobs et al. 2020).  So lots of unknowns and all jaws found did not contain teeth to compare against.