Odd Triassic tooth

[JohnBrewer]

While digging around in some bone bed (Triassic, Rhaetic, Penarth Group, Westbury Formation, Rhaetic Bone Bed

Aust Cliff, River Severn, South Gloucestershire, UK.) I found this tooth. I must have cracked a ton of this stuff over recent years and have never found anything like it.

 

Fossils of the area are marine reptiles tiles and fish. Common finds are fish teeth and coprolites, plesiosaur and ichthyosaur bones, mostly, unsurprising, vertebrae.

 

Oh and thank you Ray @aerogrower it's first outing  

 

Your wisdom and comments please!

 

Labial surface

 

 

Lingual surface

 

 

Occlusal surface

 

Root end

 

Stupidly I forgot to photograph the proximal sides but hopefully you can get a rough idea from the other shots. 

[FossilDudeCO]

Wow, what a strange find!

 

[Miocene_Mason]

That's weird, I'm not to familiar with the formation, but it looks kinda like a herbivorous dinosaur tooth. I'll do some research...

[JohnBrewer]

@Troodon any ideas Frank?

[Troodon]

It's not a dinosaur  cool find 

 

Any chance it's G    Sargodon tomicus fish incisor 

 

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283090631_A_Marine_vertebrate_fauna_from_the_Late_Triassic_of_Somerset_and_a_review_of_British_placodonts

[Miocene_Mason]

Does look like sargodon, the dinosaur I'd was a wild guess

[JohnBrewer]

1 hour ago, Troodon said:

It's not a dinosaur  cool find 

 

Any chance it's G    Sargodon tomicus fish incisor 

 

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283090631_A_Marine_vertebrate_fauna_from_the_Late_Triassic_of_Somerset_and_a_review_of_British_placodonts

Yes, that's exactly what it is, thanks Frank. I know nothing about fish and certainly didn't know some fish had incisors. I thought fish had 'teeth'......

[Troodon]

29 minutes ago, JohnBrewer said:

Yes, that's exactly what it is, thanks Frank. I know nothing about fish and certainly didn't know some fish had incisors. I thought fish had 'teeth'......

 

Ha ha, that's two of us,  just happened to be very lucky on a Triassic search.

[JohnBrewer]

1 minute ago, Troodon said:

 

Ha ha, that's two of us,  just happened to be very lucky on a Triassic search.

Yeah, and this thing with dinos and feathers....

 

[doushantuo]

John ,you might actually like this one:

j.1096-3642.1994.tb00319.x.pdf

Outtake:

[doushantuo]

Guess !