Unknown fossil from outside Canyonlands, UT

[RockHawk1808]

Was hiking across the Colorado River from Dead Horse Point/Canyonlands a few years back and found this.  Looks porous and cemented in a siliceous rock.  Any ideas?  Thanks!

[Fossildude19]

Claddodont/petalodont shark tooth, I think. 

@Archie @TNCollector @FossilDAWG @JimB88

[Rockwood]

Any bee keepers notice the morphology of a partially drawn (comb) foundation that was too warped to use ? 

[izak_]

Wow. Thats a pretty awesome find! 

Welcome! 

[Fossildude19]

Cropped and brightened:

 

 

[Troodon]

Could this be a Deltodus tooth

[jdp]

Definitely Deltodus.

 

So, early chimaera tooth plate. Probably Carboniferous.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Really nice find! 

Thanks for sharing and a very warm welcome to TFF from Morocco! 

[RockHawk1808]

Definitely looks like Deltodus after looking at some photos!  What exactly is a Deltodus?  Will definitely have to post a few other fossils here for identification.  

[ynot]

@RockHawk1808

Welcome to TFF!

Nice find!

[Innocentx]

A fantastic find! I found only a fragment once, but this looks about complete.

[abyssunder]

That's great!
Nice comparative pictures are here .

[siteseer]

On 4/6/2018 at 3:34 PM, jdp said:

Definitely Deltodus.

 

So, early chimaera tooth plate. Probably Carboniferous.

 

In the Dead Horse Point area, there is a reddish limestone that was told to me to be part of the Rico Formation, late Pennsylvanian age.  That's what it was called in the 90's.  Lin Ottinger, owner of the Moab Rock shop, famed local tour guide and raconteur, took me on a geology hike around there back then.  I flipped over a rock to reveal a startled green centipede that in my memory was a foot long - right out of the Pennsylvanian, I tell you.  It was probably half that length but I stopped flipping over rocks after that.  Lin didn't think it 

 

You have to be careful about collecting fossils anywhere around Moab.  There's national park land and state land, and other land where you are not allowed to pick up anything - fossil, arrowhead, sprinkler head, nothing.

[Ludwigia]

On 7.4.2018 at 1:07 AM, RockHawk1808 said:

What exactly is a Deltodus? 

It was a crusher shark belonging to the family of the Cochliodontidae.

[TNCollector]

Yep that is a Deltodus tooth, a nice one too. Congrats!

 

It looks mostly intact, it is rare to find them like that. I only have a handful in that condition.

[Archie]

Awesome find! You don't often stumble across them in this condition!