JohnBrewer Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 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. John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDudeCO Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Wow, what a strange find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 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... 2 “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted June 18, 2017 Author Share Posted June 18, 2017 @Troodon any ideas Frank? John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Does look like sargodon, the dinosaur I'd was a wild guess “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted June 18, 2017 Author Share Posted June 18, 2017 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'...... John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted June 18, 2017 Author Share Posted June 18, 2017 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.... 2 John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 John ,you might actually like this one: j.1096-3642.1994.tb00319.x.pdf Outtake: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Guess ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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