boonxeven Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 Found this past weekend at the Brownwood dam spillway in Texas. White tip was sticking out. Was on a large stone that tumbled from further up. It's really brittle, and was already cracked in the stone. Was trying to take it out with surrounding stone but it came out as I was doing it in a few pieces. Was hoping for a more specific species beyond the Petalodus genus if possible. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhysicist Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 (edited) Wow, that is a nice tooth! I can't help, unfortunately. Edited March 23, 2021 by ThePhysicist "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...
DPS Ammonite Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 (edited) P. ohioensis is likely since it is the default genus in North America. https://fossil.15656.com/research-pages/petalodus/ Edited March 23, 2021 by DPS Ammonite 2 2 My goal is to leave no stone or fossil unturned. See my Arizona Paleontology Guide link The best single resource for Arizona paleontology anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boonxeven Posted March 23, 2021 Author Share Posted March 23, 2021 11 hours ago, ThePhysicist said: Wow, that is a nice tooth! I can't help, unfortunately. Thank you! I was just thinking that I didn't like the location I was looking, and hadn't found anything good when I spotted it sticking out. I'm super jazzed about finding it! 12 hours ago, DPS Ammonite said: P. ohioensis is likely since it is the default genus in North America. https://fossil.15656.com/research-pages/petalodus/ Very much appreciated, thank you! That's a great resource to read more about these. I was having a hard time finding much on them, apparently they're not as common of a shark tooth, or maybe just less interest in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cngodles Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 (edited) Yikes, that's my webpage! The controversy around P. ohioensis is that the original specimen is currently lost. It was likely in Safford's possession when he passed away 114 years ago. I contacted the university he taught at for years, but nobody could find it. P. allegheniensis was described 3 years later, but since Safford was first, P. ohioensis is the name people use in North America since it's essentially the same tooth morphology. For a while P. allegheniensis was thought to be first because Safford published his in a much more obscure journal that was not well read. There are two casts in existence however. One at Yale, the other at the Field Museum. The Field Museum one was recently found and is of much higher quality than the Yale one. It helped cement it's species ID in North America. The most modern US species named was P. jewetti by Miller in 1957, but it's clearly a P. ohioensis and his reason for naming was that it was the first one ever found in Kansas! I became fascinated with these teeth after reading this article: http://elibrary.dcnr.pa.gov/GetDocument?docId=1752440&DocName=PaGeoMag_v48no2.pdf First I found a crinidx calax plate that I thought was a tooth. Then later I found the real thing. Edited March 23, 2021 by cngodles Fossils of Parks Township - Research | Catalog | How-to Make High-Contrast Photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boonxeven Posted March 24, 2021 Author Share Posted March 24, 2021 17 hours ago, cngodles said: Yikes, that's my webpage! The controversy around P. ohioensis is that the original specimen is currently lost. It was likely in Safford's possession when he passed away 114 years ago. I contacted the university he taught at for years, but nobody could find it. P. allegheniensis was described 3 years later, but since Safford was first, P. ohioensis is the name people use in North America since it's essentially the same tooth morphology. For a while P. allegheniensis was thought to be first because Safford published his in a much more obscure journal that was not well read. There are two casts in existence however. One at Yale, the other at the Field Museum. The Field Museum one was recently found and is of much higher quality than the Yale one. It helped cement it's species ID in North America. The most modern US species named was P. jewetti by Miller in 1957, but it's clearly a P. ohioensis and his reason for naming was that it was the first one ever found in Kansas! I became fascinated with these teeth after reading this article: http://elibrary.dcnr.pa.gov/GetDocument?docId=1752440&DocName=PaGeoMag_v48no2.pdf First I found a crinidx calax plate that I thought was a tooth. Then later I found the real thing. Your page is very informative and interesting! The additional article too! I could completely understand mistaking a crinoid calyx plate for a tooth, especially if it was fragmented. Similar texture and shape on the point. I wasn't even aware that petolodus teeth were able to be found where I was looking. Luckily the Austin Paleontological society was around to point me in the right direction! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cngodles Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 In "Pennsylvanian Fossils of North Texas" they do a chapter on Late Pennsylvanian Marine Sharks of Texas (Chapter 5) that has about 18 pages of writing on shark teeth and remains in general. Although North Texas can be pretty vague with how huge the state is. I've had the pleasure of driving from Texarkana to a 3 day stay in San Antonio, and off to El Paso to continue to California. When I-10 has signs for Exit 877 over in Louisiana, you know you are in for a trip! Fossils of Parks Township - Research | Catalog | How-to Make High-Contrast Photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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