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izak_ Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Welcome! Could we have some info on the site you found it? (Were there any other fossils there, was it a known site?) Without that info I can confidently say it isn't a tooth, but could be a gastropod cast or something similar that. Maybe even ammonite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoast Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Not a tooth. Its an incomplete, battered, broken and worn ammonite. Still a nice find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n8tive1 Posted June 22, 2017 Author Share Posted June 22, 2017 please tell me the similarities between this and my finding? this was found on a remote location within an indian reservation where fossils have been found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 This isn't kind of what you have (the encircled section) but it's not the same genus so it's not really compatible. Extremely basic five second reconstruction included below... “...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...
Fossildude19 Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Welcome to the Forum. I agree it is an ammonoid, - but it may be a Goniatite rather than an ammonite. No enamel, no bone texture. So not a tooth. Regards, 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...
westcoast Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 6 hours ago, Fossildude19 said: Welcome to the Forum. I agree it is an ammonoid, - but it may be a Goniatite rather than an ammonite. No enamel, no bone texture. So not a tooth. Regards, Agreed. To be more correct ammonoid is a better call without more details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Agree that it's a goniatite part. John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 I agree with some kind of cephalopod. By the way (I might be completely wrong, as I know nothing of ammonites/goniatites/nautiloids etc; and so the experts might be laughing when reading this maybe stupid question), but isn't this part like the thing that the ammonites/nautilus closed when they were hiding in their shell to protect against predators? The thing that closed the aperture? Because if it is, if I remember correctly, that part fossilizes less frequently, making this fossil possibly more valuable... Sorry if I am not clear, or saying something stupid Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 32 minutes ago, Max-fossils said: I agree with some kind of cephalopod. By the way (I might be completely wrong, as I know nothing of ammonites/goniatites/nautiloids etc; and so the experts might be laughing when reading this maybe stupid question), but isn't this part like the thing that the ammonites/nautilus closed when they were hiding in their shell to protect against predators? The thing that closed the aperture? Because if it is, if I remember correctly, that part fossilizes less frequently, making this fossil possibly more valuable... Sorry if I am not clear, or saying something stupid Possibly Rhyncholite? Remembered this in a book I have... or maybe the hood, it's that separate part on the top of the ammonite. “...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...
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