fangirl0708 Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 We found this odd orange tooth in a box of Lee Creek Matrix. One side is rounded and smooth, the other is sharp. Does anyone have a guess what it might be from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueBackCrow Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Looks like a canine tooth from a bear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Which side is rounded and which side is sharp? I cant tell from the picture. Cool looking tooth, nice find! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangirl0708 Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 Which side is rounded and which side is sharp? I cant tell from the picture. Cool looking tooth, nice find! in the bottom picture, it would be the left side is the sharp side and the right is the rounded. In the first and second pictures, the top is the sharp part and the bottom is the rounded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 It almost has to be a big fish tooth, but I can't place it. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njfossilhunter Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I don't think its a tooth ,,I have seen these before but can't put my finger on it.....It also had a small base on it .....Its tuff getting old...lol TonyThe Brooks Are Like A Box Of Chocolates,,,, You Never Know What You'll Find. I Told You I Don't Have Alzheimer's.....I Have Sometimers. Some Times I Remember And Some Times I Forget.... I Mostly Forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 It looks like a Moroccan Enchodus tooth. I think it has been broken and glued. Someone must have dropped it in your matrix as a bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangirl0708 Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 It looks like a Moroccan Enchodus tooth. I think it has been broken and glued. Someone must have dropped it in your matrix as a bonus. i just realized i posted the same picture twice of one and two, the tip is actually completely broken off, I just placed it as close together as possible to give it it's full shape. i will post the other side now, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Auspex Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 It looks like a Moroccan Enchodus tooth.... I agree that this is exactly what it looks like. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangirl0708 Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 I agree that this is exactly what it looks like. i agree, after looking it up, it's spot on...i just don't know how it would get into the matrix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 i agree, after looking it up, it's spot on...i just don't know how it would get into the matrix. Me neither, and this is why I did not voice the idea originally. Cross-contamination is not unheard of, but it is rare, and rarer still to find out how. It is probably safe to say, however, that you are not the first human to handle this tooth. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 I agree,Moroccan Enchodus tooth. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Yeah, that's the first thing that came to mind as well; I don't think the color is right even if this was from the Pungo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diceros Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 To elaborate just a bit on Al Dente (sharp as always, Eric!), an isolated upper (palatine) fang of the sabre-toothed fish Enchodus libycus Quaas, 1902, from the Lt. Cretaceous (e. Maastrichtian) lower phosphate beds of coastal Morocco. Not uncommon at fossil shows, although fossils of the lw. beds are far less common than those of the (mostly) e. Eocene upper beds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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