Flag Pond, MD ID Help Needed Part 2

[Jlpastrone]

Also found at Flag Pond this summer. I would love help IDing these as well!  Thank you!!

 

#1 (approximately 1 inch)

 

#2

 

#3 (approx 1/2 inch)

 

 

#4 (1 inch x 1/2 inch x 1/2 inch)

 

 

[Miocene_Mason]

I think one is another severely worn croc tooth (something along the lines of thecacampsia). I see some pretty Ecphora pieces in the background, nice finds

[Fossildude19]

Welcome to the Forum.  

 

#4 Looks like a worn Paleozoic coral - possibly washed out from somewhere inland, or washed in by the ocean - either way, it is an erratic. 

Regards,

[Miocene_Mason]

3 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

#4 Looks like a worn Paleozoic coral - possibly washed out from somewhere inland, or washed in by the ocean - either way, it is an erratic. 

In Maryland? I've yet to find or even hear of a horn coral, the closest site of the correct age is about 150 miles away to the west, so I'd doubt that the glaciers or rivers would bring it. Also flag ponds is on a penninsula of sorts. I do agree it is a coral though, just not Paleozoic.

[Fossildude19]

2 hours ago, WhodamanHD said:

In Maryland? I've yet to find or even hear of a horn coral, the closest site of the correct age is about 150 miles away to the west, so I'd doubt that the glaciers or rivers would bring it. Also flag ponds is on a penninsula of sorts. I do agree it is a coral though, just not Paleozoic.

Paleozoic corals show up all the time on Cape May, and farther south.  

Can't rule out the human factor, either.   

Not real familiar with younger corals, so you could be right. 

That's why I qualified it with a "looks like "   

[Miocene_Mason]

11 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

Paleozoic corals show up all the time on Cape May, and farther south.  

Can't rule out the human factor, either.   

Not real familiar with younger corals, so you could be right. 

That's why I qualified it with a "looks like "   

Considering glaciers typically move north/south thats why I thought it unlikely to be an erratic, but  I guess it is possible. I wanna be one of those people who brings fossils from somewhere and buries them just to confuse future people  The sediment attached to the piece looks closer to the unconsolidated sediment of the cliffs than the hard stuff you get the older fossils in. I'm not really familiar enough with corals either so I'm going to leave it to someone else to find out.

[PaleoRon]

The first one is a worn and fragmented cetacean tooth. The last one is a barnacle.

[Rockwood]

4 hours ago, PaleoRon said:

 The last one is a barnacle.

Agreed. I'm quite certain that is it. Just the inner layer remains.

[MarcoSr]

I agree with Ron that #1 is a worn and fragmented cetacean tooth.  The pattern on the tooth looks like the core of a sperm whale tooth.  I agree #4 looks like a really worn barnacle.  #3 is really too fragmented.  #2 is really interesting.  I'm curious what others think it is.

 

Marco Sr.

[Rockwood]

30 minutes ago, MarcoSr said:

#2 is really interesting.  I'm curious what others think it is.

Baby theropod's first shoe 

But seriously; it is of  great interest.

[fifbrindacier]

I agree with the ID of barnacle for number 4.

[ynot]

I think that better closeup pictures of 2 are needed.

Agree with Marco sr on the rest.

[Jlpastrone]

Wow!! Thanks for helping a new-to-the-hunt woman out!  I truly appreciate all of your insights!  Here are more pictures of #2... it's only about a 1/4inch. 

[Rockwood]

I bet this turns out to be a seal tooth. 

Or perhaps something closely related.

[MarcoSr]

Here are enlarged pictures of #2.

 

 

This specimen doesn't match anything that I'm familiar with.

 

Marco Sr.

[ynot]

Maybe @Boesse will have an idea.

[Rockwood]

Would seals have milk teeth ?

[doushantuo]

they're shed in utero,during embryogenesis

[Al Dente]

I'm guessing it is a fish tooth. Forked teeth with two lobes aren't unusual but I've never seen one with three.

[MarcoSr]

3 hours ago, Al Dente said:

I'm guessing it is a fish tooth. Forked teeth with two lobes aren't unusual but I've never seen one with three.

 

Eric

 

I was also thinking fish tooth but I've never seen a bony fish tooth with three lobes like this specimen either.

 

Marco Sr.

[Boesse]

So if this were to be a seal tooth it would have to be an incisor - and no seal has tricuspate incisors like this.

 

The closest I can think of are oral teeth of Lagodon - which look like this but only have two cusps. This really looks like a fish tooth to me, especially the root.

[dalmayshun]

Whatever it is, it is gorgeous. Nice going

[Al Dente]

Some Characins have multicusp teeth but they live in Central and South America, plus their teeth are almost microscopic.

 

image from "Taxonomic revision and molecular phylogeny of Gymnocorymbus Eigenmann, 1908"