Stonebone Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 I found this Ptychodus marginalis on a sandbar on a river this spring after a large flood. The river cuts through the lower Smoky Hill Chalk of Northwest Kansas. After I picked it up, I asked myself "is this real?" It is!!! 54mm across. 9 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 That is a monster tooth! Congratulations on a wonderful find. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Amazing tooth, congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Awesome! That is a big tooth! Thanks for posting it! Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heteromorph Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Nice muffin tooth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Wowser...that is one heck of a Ptychodus tooth! Can you imagine a pavement of those things?...that's a big shark! "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 Uhhh, that's the biggest Texas Ptychodus I've ever seen though the late Boneman007 claimed to have seen a tooth that was at least 125mm. He didn't have a photo but he didn't come across as a teller of tall tales. I've heard of specimens in Europe in the 60-80mm range (see Welton and Farish, 1993: p. 65). The thing about big Ptychodus like that is they tend to be cracked (weathering from being near or at the surface) as I see in that specimen. I have a partial crown that appears to have been about 50mm wide when complete. It broke mostly horizontally before it was collected. I would soak that tooth in a Paraloid solution or whatever has been the best consolidant for large teeth in that deposit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonebone Posted October 31, 2018 Author Share Posted October 31, 2018 Thanks siteseer. I think I'll do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf89 Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 That's huge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared C Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 “Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think” -Werner Heisenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSCHNELLE Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 (edited) Monster tooth! I Congrats! If it truly came from the Lower Smoky Hill Chalk Upper Coniacian to Lower Santonian), then it's not a Ptychodus marginalis. More likely it's a Ptychodus martini. Edited November 13, 2022 by LSCHNELLE 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSCHNELLE Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 On 11/13/2022 at 1:14 PM, LSCHNELLE said: Monster tooth! I Congrats! If it truly came from the Lower Smoky Hill Chalk Upper Coniacian to Lower Santonian), then it's not a Ptychodus marginalis. More likely it's a Ptychodus martini. @StoneboneFYI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonebone Posted November 17, 2022 Author Share Posted November 17, 2022 LSCHNELLE I agree with you. Thank you for your input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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