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Found this fossil in a limestone cliff within Shoal creek! Thoughts?

The pictures look very blurry; I have gotten compressed pictures with decent results using jpeg-optimizer.com to fit the 2mb limit while offering detail :)

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Photographing fossils can be a chore. I have found that laying the specimen next to a scale bar is easier for in focus pictures. I don't know anything about Shoal Creek or the formations it exposes. But, your location of Austin, TX makes a Late Cretaceous assumption fairly safe.

That being said, based on overall shape (and assumed local collection), I would say you have a Xiphactinus audax tooth.

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Shoal Creek here in Austin cuts thru a number of formations of the Cretaceous. Even with the blurry image it certainly appears to be a tooth. You can get a sharper image both by not holding it in your hand and shooting in bright sunlight for a quicker exposure.

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