wetwilly Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Hi, Finally was able to get out and do some hunting...glad I did. Found a few honey holes that produced some good fossils. Are these two teeth, mosasaur? I'm trying to compare these to my other mosasaur teeth that I have found before, but the sizes and condition vary so much I hesitate to make a positive ID. (scale in inches) Thanks. 1 Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Second object looks like a claw to Me. 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...
Fossildude19 Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Your second item looks like a deer hoof core. Great tooth! 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 1 minute ago, Fossildude19 said: Your second item looks like a deer hoof core. Great tooth! Well that is kind of a claw isn't it? 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...
wetwilly Posted March 26, 2017 Author Share Posted March 26, 2017 7 minutes ago, ynot said: Well that is kind of a claw isn't it? LOL. Thanks Tony, I was scrambling to see what claw it might be. It does resemble a claw like appearance...but man that would be very large from what I have seen around here. 12 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said: Your second item looks like a deer hoof core. Great tooth! I found references for deer hoof and it does look like it! Looks to be fossilized, could it be something other than deer from what you see? Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Second specimen - cloven bone (Bos, Cervus, Ovis, Sus) - Cervus excerpt from Atlas of Animal Bones. For Prehistorians, Archaeologists and Quaternary Geologists - Elisabeth Schmid; Elsevier, New York, 1972 3 " 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...
Fossildude19 Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 53 minutes ago, wetwilly said: LOL. Thanks Tony, I was scrambling to see what claw it might be. It does resemble a claw like appearance...but man that would be very large from what I have seen around here. I found references for deer hoof and it does look like it! Looks to be fossilized, could it be something other than deer from what you see? Have you tried a hot needle or burn test? Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 That tooth is interesting. I don't see any carinae, right? They would be expected for croc or mosasaur teeth. Plesiosaur teeth lack them but this has the wrong overall shape. Doesn't look like a theropod or a fish either, so I'm a bit stumped. Nice tooth, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Perhaps this is a Pliosaur tooth. 1 "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoosh Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 Nice tooth! My guess would be a larger croc tooth if you can make out a weak cutting edge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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