small grooves on spinosaur tooth

[rocket]

what do you think? Never seen before, a spinosaur-tooth from morocco with unusual structure (grooves), where do this come from? We have seen hundrets or thousands of this teeth from morocco but this is the first one with this structure. Preservation is good, has perhaps a pathology (crown not symmetric)

I can do better pics if necessary, did them tonight with my iphone in the cellar after recognizing this grooves

so, tooth is "in prep"

 

 

Edited March 23, 2023 by rocket

[Troodon]

I think its just about preservation

[rocket]

1 minute ago, Troodon said:

I think its just about preservation

might be, unusual

have you seen grooves like this on other teeths? I am wondered about the arrangment in "lines"

[Troodon]

No, 

Have you tried cleaning the tooth up a bit.  The red matrix is hiding most of those pits

[rocket]

12 minutes ago, Troodon said:

No, 

Have you tried cleaning the tooth up a bit.  The red matrix is hiding most of those pits

not yet, found the pits yesterday in the evening. Will clean it next days, hope to see more than. Thanks for input

[Troodon]

Be careful that enamel might be very flaky and break off