BellamyBlake Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 I have a 1" dagger-shaped tooth from the Kem Kem. I bought it as a crocodile tooth. The way it's shaped I assumed it was a fish fang, but the enamel looks pretty much like a crocodile's. Here are the only photographs I have access to for the time; is it identifiable? Thank you, Bellamy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thecosmilia Trichitoma Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Looks like an Enchodus tooth to me. 4 It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 2 "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 I agree - Enchodus. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 5 hours ago, Thecosmilia Trichitoma said: Looks like an Enchodus tooth to me. Hard to say, really, with so few and poor-quality images to go on - especially when identifying crocodilian teeth from the Kem Kem can be very difficult in general. However, this doesn't look like the robust, rounded conical teeth of the likes of Elosuchus. Nor does it look like a tooth from one of the varied species with hghly laterally compressed teeth, such as the knife-like teeth of Hamadasuchus. Instead, I agree that the slightly laterally compressed round shape of the tooth, its carinae, and the fact that the tooth seems to straighten its curve a bit towards the apex point towards Enchodus. Me not being entirely familiar with these teeth, the only thing that has me a bit puzzled is the facet the tooth appears to have on one of its sides (though nowhere else)... 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BellamyBlake Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 Thank you everyone, I'll go with Enchodus until better photographs are available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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