Jump to content

Finally got a nice raptor tooth


Raptor Lover

Recommended Posts

So since I started collecting fossils, I've been trying to get a nice complete raptor tooth. I bought my first dinosaur teeth (Moroccan theropod tooth and 2 partial raptor from Hell Creek) back in May 2015. Last week, I finally found and bought a beautiful little raptor tooth from Hell Creek :) Here it is :yay-smiley-1:

CM161119-16381301.jpg

"Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you" Job 12:8

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Gratz! A fossil worth your name!

Looking forward to meeting my fellow Singaporean collectors! Do PM me if you are a Singaporean, or an overseas fossil-collector coming here for a holiday!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

20 hours ago, MR.CRINOID said:

How did you ID it?

Too small and is not fat enough to be a tyrannosaur tooth. Also, it's too recurved for a tyrannosaur.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

What other small raptors are known from the Hell Creek deposit that would match the one he has? Obviously Tyrannosaurs weren't breed in toy form, so what other suggestions might you have?

5 hours ago, Runner64 said:

Too small and is not fat enough to be a tyrannosaur tooth. Also, it's too recurved for a tyrannosaur.

 

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

T rex is thought to have been the size of an adult cat when it hatched.  I have what 'may be' Tyrannosaurid teeth that small.  However, isolated teeth are difficult to ID.  Also the position of the tooth varies with position.  I dont think there is a jaw specimen with intact  teeth of a youngest tyrannosaur (I could be wrong).

 

In general I find smaller Tyrannosaur teeth to be more robust than same size raptor teeth.  However, sometimes we compare to previously tentatively identified teeth and mistaken identity perpetuates itself. In the Campanian Cretaceous,  it can get iffy trying to to distinguish small Tyrannosaur and big Dromaeosaur teeth.

 

Anyways, a nice tooth. A bit easier to ID in the Maastrichtian deposits.  It has the gracile shape of a raptor. The tooth has nice serrations and has the best type of tip...intact but showing wear from real life.  One wonders what the little guy sunk his tooth into. 

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Raptor teeth are also identifiable by the serrations. The serrations on the back curve are generally larger than those on the front. And raptor teeth are indeed also recurved.

 

It might even be possible to identify the raptor teeth to the species level by looking at the serrations more closely. Shape and number of serrations differ between species. There are also only two known raptors/dromaeosaurids present in the Hell Creek formation. Dakotaraptor and Acheroraptor. The latter being the smaller one.

Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite

Link to comment
Share on other sites

14 hours ago, Canadawest said:

T rex is thought to have been the size of an adult cat when it hatched.  I have what 'may be' Tyrannosaurid teeth that small.  However, isolated teeth are difficult to ID.  Also the position of the tooth varies with position.  I dont think there is a jaw specimen with intact  teeth of a youngest tyrannosaur (I could be wrong).

 

In general I find smaller Tyrannosaur teeth to be more robust than same size raptor teeth.  However, sometimes we compare to previously tentatively identified teeth and mistaken identity perpetuates itself. In the Campanian Cretaceous,  it can get iffy trying to to distinguish small Tyrannosaur and big Dromaeosaur teeth.

 

Anyways, a nice tooth. A bit easier to ID in the Maastrichtian deposits.  It has the gracile shape of a raptor. The tooth has nice serrations and has the best type of tip...intact but showing wear from real life.  One wonders what the little guy sunk his tooth into. 

 

 

Well said! And thank you :)

"Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you" Job 12:8

Link to comment
Share on other sites

13 hours ago, LordTrilobite said:

Raptor teeth are also identifiable by the serrations. The serrations on the back curve are generally larger than those on the front. And raptor teeth are indeed also recurved.

 

It might even be possible to identify the raptor teeth to the species level by looking at the serrations more closely. Shape and number of serrations differ between species. There are also only two known raptors/dromaeosaurids present in the Hell Creek formation. Dakotaraptor and Acheroraptor. The latter being the smaller one.

Yep very true :P

Hmm I didn't know the serrations differ between species, thanks for the info. 

 

Yeah the seller labeled it as Saurornitholestes but I knew that Acheroraptor is the only small dromaeosaur described in Hell Creek 

"Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you" Job 12:8

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...