ilzho Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Hi: Me again. I found this at Aurora, NC Phosphate mine many moons ago. I am unsure if it's an alligator, mosasaur tooth or something else. Thanks for the help. David . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad hinkelman Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Aurora is not old enough for mosasaur must be a crocodile.. Tony PS Nice find. 1 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...
Al Dente Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 It's Thecachampsa antiqua from the Miocene Pungo River Formation. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 7 minutes ago, Al Dente said: It's Thecachampsa antiqua from the Miocene Pungo River Formation. Uh yeah, that's what I meant to say. (That's My story and I am sticking with it.) Ynot 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...
ilzho Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 Cooldeal! Thanks everyone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 44 minutes ago, Al Dente said: It's Thecachampsa antiqua from the Miocene Pungo River Formation. I agree, and a pretty nice one also. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 No doubt, that it is. excerpt from R. W. Purdy, V. P. Schneider, S. P. Applegate, J. H. McLellan, R. L. Meyer and B. H. Slaughter. 2001. The Neogene sharks, rays, and bony fishes from Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 90:71-202 Good pictures, BTW, thanks for posting them here. " 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...
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