Raptor Lover Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 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 "Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you" Job 12:8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptor Lover Posted November 20, 2016 Author Share Posted November 20, 2016 "Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you" Job 12:8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenJD Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 nice tooth, thanks for showing us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 Sweet piece!! Congratulations on the acquisition. Tony Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Andy- Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 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 More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 Congratulations! You must be very happy! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandgroper Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 What a great tooth, well done mate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 Very nice! Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runner64 Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 Very nice tooth! Your collection is growing quite a bit. Keep up the work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR.CRINOID Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 How did you ID it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Nice find! Congrats! Quote I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieira Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Nice tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runner64 Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 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 More sharing options...
caldigger Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 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 More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 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 More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 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 More sharing options...
Raptor Lover Posted November 24, 2016 Author Share Posted November 24, 2016 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 More sharing options...
Raptor Lover Posted November 24, 2016 Author Share Posted November 24, 2016 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 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 More sharing options...
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