Bathonian fossil - very small, with enamel

[Ossicle]

Rutland, Blisworth Limestone, Jurassic, Bathonian 

 

In the same matrix as I extracted the previous tooth I found this minute thing. It has similar preservation and colouration as the tooth, including what looks like enamel. I spotted it glinting.

 

Is this a palatal tooth? I was wondering if it might be Asteracanthus. A really really tiny Asteracanthus.

[Fossildude19]

@jdp

[Coco]

Hi,

 

We can’t see the reference to your rule.

 

Coco

[Ossicle]

Sorry, in the images where the fossil is extracted from the matrix, each long line is one mm, the shorter line is half a mm. The ruler when it's in rock is showing mm, so it's really tiny, about 2mm.

 

Looking at it again, it could be a fragment of something, rather than a small but identifiable fossil. It looks like a broken part of something.

Edited April 10, 2022 by Ossicle