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What teeth are these? Lee Creek Aurora, NC


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Moved to Fossil ID. ;)

They look like fish teeth, to me.

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3 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

They look like fish teeth, to me.

 

I agree. You can see the acrodin cap on the first tooth.

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Only two of them look the same are they different fish or just different looking?

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Probably from different fish, but hard to say.

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I also think fish. Only because I have spent the past year looking at Lee creek under a microscope. Haha

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13 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

Moved to Fossil ID. ;)

They look like fish teeth, to me.

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Agree.  Fish teeth.  The specimens in the 1st and 3rd pictures look like the same fish species.  The specimens in the 2nd and 4th pictures look like two different fish species, so 3 fish species total.

 

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15 hours ago, Al Dente said:

I agree. You can see the acrodin cap on the first tooth.

 

Excuse my ignorance, but what's an "acrodin cap"? I wasn't really able to find something on an internet search just now, other than it's a different kind of mineralised tissue from enamel proper... Is it the translucent part of the apex often seen on fish teeth?

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1 hour ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

. Is it the translucent part of the apex often seen on fish teeth?


Yes. Here are a couple paragraphs from published papers.

 

 

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