new jersey cretaceous

[wetwilly]

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.

[ynot]

Second object looks like a claw to Me.

[Fossildude19]

Your second item looks like a deer hoof core. 

Great tooth! 

[ynot]

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?

[wetwilly]

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?

[abyssunder]

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

[Fossildude19]

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? 

[Carl]

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!

[PFOOLEY]

Perhaps this is a Pliosaur tooth.

 

[Smoosh]

Nice tooth! My guess would be a larger croc tooth if you can make out a weak cutting edge.