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Mystery Tooth - Croc or Dino?


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Got this tooth in a trade package. The exact locality is unknown, but is somewhere west of the Mississippi. It seems similar to the gator and croc teeth I have found down here in Bone Valley Florida, but the interior structure appears different. Any ideas what this might be?

 

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I agree - this is a very water worn Rugose coral. :) 

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It's a pretty nice example of solitary rugose coral for studying the morphology.

 

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