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Mosasaur Or Shark Tooth?


Napoleon North

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Hi

This is fish / shark or mosasaur tooth?

Location: Górka Pychowicka , Kraków , Poland

Age:Cretaceous

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I vote shark tooth, other than that I cannot narrow it down very far as I have never collected anywhere in Europe.

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I actually think it's a baby mosasaur tooth. I'm not expert in Polish fossils, so I may be wrong.

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Shark. I'd almost venture a guess at juvenile Mako type of shark.

Most Mosasaur teeth I have seen are round. This is not.

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Its not Mosasaur. The third picture shows the thin enamel wall with the interior completely mineralized. The inside of shark teeth are made of much weaker material than Mosasaurs. The interior part of mosasaur teeth usually permineralize rather than replace.

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I think TN is spot on. That third picture shows a crown with a thin wall which says shark to me. A Lamniform of some type.

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