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Had two weeks off from school, so I thought I would poke around a bit at a few of the spots I frequent. It was way too hot to stay for any length of time but I did come away with a few good 'bits and bob's' (sorry, been watching a lot of videos of folk from the UK fossilin'.) :D

Firstly, at the Pennington Formation I found what i believed at the time to be a beat up Petalodus tooth. I set it aside when i got home and didnt touch it until returning from my second trip. i thought maybe I could clean it up a bit, but soon noticed it had striations going from the root up. petalodus doesn't have those so i decided to have a go at it (:P) with my airscribe. This is basically what it looked like, with matrix covering the top portion.

 

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With a little scribing I uncovered a blunt cusplet which is when I started getting excited! After many hours of scribe work here is what Ive uncovered:

 

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A very large Cladodus-type tooth! The biggest Ive found intact! Its only missing a couple of cusplets. I had to stabilize it with super glue as the root was full of cracks. i'll take better pics this weekend. Needless to say I was chuffed! :D

 

I'll post the results (and the heart-break) from the trips I took over vacation this weekend so stay tuned!

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Congratulations, Jim!

Awesome find. :) 

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Brilliant! ;)

You've been killing it since you joined, over 8 years ago, and I have enjoyed every post.

Congratulations!

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39 minutes ago, JimB88 said:

I was chuffed! :D

Speak English son! :rofl:

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51 minutes ago, Auspex said:

Brilliant! ;)

You've been killing it since you joined, over 8 years ago, and I have enjoyed every post.

Congratulations!

Thanks Chas! Has it been that long..time flies when your having fun!

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Awesome tooth!

“...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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1 hour ago, Fossildude19 said:

Congratulations, Jim!

Awesome find. :) 

Thanks Tim..Being it was a surprise it makes up for losing my best find from the other day!

1 hour ago, deutscheben said:

Wow, monster tooth!

Ive only ever found a root that was bigger, but it had no blade or cusplets

51 minutes ago, fossilized6s said:

Wow!! Wonderful tooth, sir. Congratulations! 

Thanks!

49 minutes ago, caldigger said:

Speak English son! :rofl:

Im tryin' :D

44 minutes ago, FossilDAWG said:

Fantastic tooth! :wub:

Don

Thank you

9 minutes ago, ynot said:

Good thing to get chuffed about!

Nice find indeed.

Thanks, it was good to find a fish eater ( not that the crushers are bad) ;)

 

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1 minute ago, DanKurek said:

Nice find mate! Hope hou enjoyed your trip.

 

Thanks, Was good to get out.

Just now, WhodamanHD said:

Awesome tooth!

Thanks!

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Great teeth :wub::envy: Congrats!

Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils :)

Regards Sebastian

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9 hours ago, belemniten said:

Great teeth :wub::envy: Congrats!

Thanks!

9 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

Beautiful tooth indeed I can see why your chuffed. :wub:

it was a pleasant surprise to be sure

9 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

I'd be chuffin' away too if I'd uncovered that myself! Great find! Curiosity did NOT kill the cat in this case :P

Thanks Roger! As you know, its great to have instincts when it comes to fossils.

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5 minutes ago, Xiphactinus said:

Wow! That's a biggun!

It sure is; makes me wonder if the same ratio for modern sharks/ tooth size is valid for ancient sharks...

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So, Im taking Digital graphic design in school. And one of the things Im learning is vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator. Since Im pretty far ahead in that class, I decided to mess around and make something to display with the tooth.

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The empty space is there do to the fossil being displayed in front of it. I used the drawing of the skull of Cladoselache since no good examples of Cladodus's skull have been found. With both, Cladoselache and Symorrium having the same jaw connection to the back of the skull, I made Cladodus have it too.

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This is awesome, Jim!

Very nice!

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1 hour ago, Fossildude19 said:

This is awesome, Jim!

Very nice!

Thanks Tim..my teacher loved it too! He let me print it out on the poster printer.

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2 hours ago, Archie said:

That's gorgeous! Love the graphic too!

Thanks! Love those Cladodus! Making a graphic on a Helodus next.

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On ‎12‎/‎07‎/‎2018 at 1:45 PM, JimB88 said:

Thanks! Love those Cladodus! Making a graphic on a Helodus next.

That's awesome looking forward to seeing that!

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