Lee Creek Odd Tooth

[pinkus]

I had the pleasure of collecting at the Lee Creek Mine back in 2002 and am going through my finds now. I can't find anything similar to this tooth. In full disclosure, I plan to either sell, or donate, this as a recent move leaves me without space for my collection.

 

Thanks

 

Dave

[ynot]

Hemipristis, snaggletooth shark.

[fossilselachian]

Looks like a piece of a Hemipristis serra tooth - an extremely common find from Lee Creek. In this condition there is no value associated with the tooth.

[jcbshark]

I’d say lower hemi as well

[pinkus]

The serrations look much more spread out to me than the other Hemis that I have seen. Thanks for letting me know that this is nothing special; I won't feel compelled to find a new home for it.

[ynot]

54 minutes ago, pinkus said:

; I won't feel compelled to find a new home for it.

If You intend to get rid of it You might as well give it to  kid, rather than throwing it out.

[Plax]

it looks like the root is round in cross section and the serrations are on only one side? If hemipristis it looks more like curvatus than serra????

  Does that fit with Aurora?

[sixgill pete]

@pinkus was this tooth found in the mine? Or in the spoil piles at the museum? I agree with @Plax thought, but have not heard of or seen H. crvatus from Lee Creek. Though I have heard that some think the lowest Pungo River could be Oligocene. The tooth could also be a lower from very close to the symphysis of the jaw of hemispristis serra. Though the serrations do look "different" I would not deem that unusual.

[pinkus]

@sixgill pete, the tooth was found in the mine. According to my notes, it was found in Block 26.

[Coco]

I think it is a parasymphyseal upper tooth (or the next one) of Hemipristis. I can't tell you more because I don't know the age of Lee Creek Mine sediment.

 

Coco