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Tooth From Midlothian, Tx?


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Found this in the TXI Cement Quarry in Midlothian, TX. It is 1.25 inches tall and about .5 inch at the base of the fossil. This is the ATCO contact between the Eagle Ford Shale and the Austin Chalk formations. Other finds in the area are Cretodus, Pytchodus, Squalicorax and other shark teeth, as well as fish verts. It has pyrite crystals up the middle of the fossil.

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Thanks for any help with ID

Thanks for your help in advance.

 

 

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Looks fishy, to me. :zzzzscratchchin:

Maybe some locals will weigh in...

Neat find.

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I think it may be a mosasaur tooth that the pyrite has had its way with.

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...may be mosasaur.I agree with Auspex.

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  • 1 year later...

Looks like a fossilized pyritized burrow to me. I have found several of those there at Martin Marietta cement quarry.

Tankman

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Not a burrow, too many linear features,  i too find pyritized burrows there but this is different

Thanks for your help in advance.

 

 

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From the pictures i'm seeing, I don't see a tooth too.

 

Post some more pictures please. A Picture of the root may help.

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Here is a 4" long burrow that filled in with pyrite from the Martin Marietta cement quarry, Midlothian Texas area. It has the linear striations as well. I still don't think it is a tooth, sorry. Looks like the bottom of a burrow to me.

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