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I found this very tiny hemi a while back (Brownies beach). I was wondering if anyone could tell me the placement? This is the whole tooth (but it’s rootless) not the top of it. Thanks.

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“...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

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10 minutes ago, ynot said:

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About 5 mm, very small

“...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

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10 minutes ago, ynot said:

Looks like a posterior tooth

 

2 minutes ago, Troodon said:

upper posterior 

Thanks to both of you! I think that’s right. Going into the tiny posteriors bag. 

“...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

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If you believe Compagno 1988 the extant Hemipristis elongatus only has a single upper posterior tooth (see below) and two lower posterior teeth (see below).  Assuming H. serra had a similar dentition, your tooth would be an upper lateral.

 

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Marco Sr. 

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