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Cretodus cf. semiplicatus?

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readinghiker Regular Member

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Hey all!

 

  I have this tooth that appears to be a cretodus.  It has plications on both the labial and lingual faces, with the lingual plications being smaller than the labial.  Cretodus so far.  Iy measures 3.88 mm in height and 3.42 mm mesio-distally,  The problem arises with the accessory cusps.  Welton and Farish state that Cretodus semiplicatus only has one accessory cusp on each side of the main cusp.  Although one side of the cusps is missing, the other side obviously has two cusps.  Was Welton and Farish mistaken, or is this tooth not even cretodus?

Thanks!

Randy

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Jared C Regular Member

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how old was the strata it came from?

 

“Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think” -Werner Heisenberg 

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This fauna is from the Coniacian.  Sorry for the late reply, but I just got back from jacketing a ceratopsian!

 

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Cretodus doesn't have lateral cusplets like that even in the posterior teeth.  How thick is the root at its thickest point.  I think that could be an odd orectolobiform tooth.

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