Cambjm06 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Found this one while on my morning walk creek walk with my dogs. Recent heavy rains, so I'm guessing it washed out of the bank within the last week. It was just sitting on the gravel bar. I have another post with a recent find that the group identified as “Mosasaur indet. cf. Tylosaurus sp.” This tooth felt noticeably heavier than my other find. It weighs 16.1g on my coffee scale. Last pic included of other finds. I'm thinking T. proriger, but am new to this and would love to know more about it. @Jared C @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared C Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 hooooly smokes! Very unusual for people starting out to be finding so many mosasaur teeth! That's an impressive specimen. Being Austin Chalk or Ozan, I would guess T. proriger based on knowledge of the fauna in the area. I'm not super familiar with the diagnostic qualities of individual teeth, especially when they're a posterior tooth such as this one. 1 1 “Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think” -Werner Heisenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bthemoose Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 That’s a nice sized Cretoxyrhina tooth as well on the lower right. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 For comparison, from your linked post. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 The absence of the top enamel layer makes it hard to establish some of the diagnostic features you'd use in identifying such a tooth. However, looking at the narrow dental cavity visible at the base of the tooth, this is definitely a mosasaur tooth. Moreover, with the round conical shape and mesially and dorsally located carinae I'd say that indeed another Tylosaurus sp. would be the most likely candidate. Seeing as the area you found this in, Tylosaurus proriger would be the prime suspect Awesome find! Seems you've got an eye for them! 2 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cambjm06 Posted August 29, 2022 Author Share Posted August 29, 2022 Thank you, everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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