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Small Lee Creek shark teeth ID


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Please help with an ID for these small teeth found in the Lee Creek spoils pile. Sorry for the poor image quality, but my cell phone does not take good pictures of tiny objects. 

 

Both teeth are approx. 5mm wide and 7mm tall

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Carcharoides catticus. An uncommon and highly prized find. Excellent.

Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt
behind the trailer, my desert
Them red clay piles are heaven on earth
I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt

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Many thanks! I found three of these over the course of several trips to Aurora. The third, not pictured is smaller by about 1/3. Are these typical size or juvenile?

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14 hours ago, sixgill pete said:

Carcharoides catticus. An uncommon and highly prized find. Excellent.

Agreed.  It was always a good day searching the piles if only one of these was found.

 

Congrats, Devildog!

 

The anteriors look very similar to Odontaspis sp. teeth.  Suggest picking up a copy of LC III and also go to elasmo.com. You may very well have an anterior or two and may not know it.

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13 hours ago, DevilDog said:

Many thanks! I found three of these over the course of several trips to Aurora. The third, not pictured is smaller by about 1/3. Are these typical size or juvenile?

 

They are juvenile.  I have ~100 or so, and the largest are in the ~15mm max dimension

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