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sharko69

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Found this at Post Oak Creek. Symphseal tooth of some sort but much different than any I have found or seen. Would love some help on IDing this one.

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Wow that is a cool tooth! In the last pick it reminds me of a hemi lower tooth but I know that its not because Post oak is cretaceous.

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47 minutes ago, Darktooth said:

Wow that is a cool tooth! In the last pick it reminds me of a hemi lower tooth but I know that its not because Post oak is cretaceous.

 

If this tooth were a Hemispristis, it would be a symphyseal; and it does look eerily like one. But as you said would be completely out of place. Could it possibly be a Leptostyrax symphyseal? I am not sure if this genus occurs in Post Oak Creek sediments, but it seems to be the closest match I can find in Welton, 1993. I also considered Paraisurus, but the root lobes do not look right to me.

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There are striations on the lingual face of the tooth. Would that not rule out Leptostyrax and Paraisurus?

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11 minutes ago, sharko69 said:

There are striations on the lingual face of the tooth. Would that not rule out Leptostyrax and Paraisurus?

 

I believe it would. I looked at the first pic better and noticed the striations this time. Could the tooth be a well worn pathologic S. texanus? Or maybe even a symphyseal S. texanus? I have never seen a symphyseal from this species, but that does not mean it is not possible.

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